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Soyuz | Soyuz 6

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 11, 1969, 11:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Soyuz 6 was a joint mission with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 that saw three spacecraft in orbit together at the same time. Soyuz 6 mission was to take high quality photographs of the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking but on all three spacecraft the docking system failed. The mission was commanded by Georgi Shonin and Flight Engineer Valeri Kubasov.

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Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 2 (15L)

RKK Energiya | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Oct. 6, 1969, 1:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Meteor-1 series was the first series of Soviet meteorological satellites.

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Scout B | ESRO 1B (Boreas)

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 1, 1969, 10:29 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ESRO-1B / Boreas (European Space Research Organisation) was a 80 kg, cylindrically shaped, solar-cell-powered spacecraft instrumented with seven scientific experiments chosen to measure a comprehensive range of auroral effects.

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Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | Poppy 8A,B,C,D

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 30, 1969, 1:40 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Poppy was the follow-on ELINT system, which succeeded the Grab ELINT satellite system.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 77

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Sept. 24, 1969, 12:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Proton | Luna-16a

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 23, 1969, 2:07 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Lunar lander and sample return probe

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Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 52

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Sept. 22, 1969, 9:11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

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Lambda 4S | Ohsumi 4

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science | Japan
Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Sept. 22, 1969, 2:10 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Ohsumi was a series of five small satellites built to become the first Japanese satellite on orbit.

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Voskhod | Zenit-4 65

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 18, 1969, 8:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

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R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 21

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Sept. 15, 1969, 4 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Missile equipped with the 8F021 warhead

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