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Voskhod | Zenit-2 68

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 29, 1968, 12:40 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Voskhod | Zenit-4 50

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 21, 1968, 12:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

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Proton | Proton-4

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 16, 1968, 11:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite designed to study the interaction of elementary particles with energies in excess of 1012 eV up to 1015 eV.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 67

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Nov. 13, 1968, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Proton / UR-500 K/D | Zond 6

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 10, 1968, 7:11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Unknown Mission

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Thor Delta E1 | Pioneer 9

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 8, 1968, 9:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.

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Titan IIIB | KH-8 17

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 6, 1968, 7:10 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

KH-8 or Gambit-3 was the second generation of Gambit high resolution reconnaissance satellites.

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Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4B 5

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 3, 1968, 9:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4B (Keyhole-4B) was sixth optical reconnaissance satellite version in the Corona-program.

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Tsiklon-2A | I2P 2

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 1, 1968, 12:27 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The I2P satellites were the first soviet coorbital ASAT system.

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Voskhod | Zenit-4M 1

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 31, 1968, 9:14 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The soviet Zenit-4M (Rotor, 11F691) was an improved version of the Zenit-4 high resolution reconnaissance satellite and was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.

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