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Titan IIIB | KH-8 11

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 18, 1968, 7:04 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | Multigroup 3 & Setter 1B-2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 17, 1968, 10:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ELINT/SIGINT satellite

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 58

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Jan. 16, 1968, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

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Thor Delta E1 | GEOS B

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 11, 1968, 4:16 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The GEOS 1 (Geodetic Earth Orbiting Satellite) spacecraft was a gravity-gradient-stabilized, solar-cell powered unit designed exclusively for geodetic studies.

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Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | Surveyor 7

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Jan. 7, 1968, 6:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Lunar probe which successfully landed on January 10.

Lunar Impactor
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Tsiklon-2A | US-AO 3

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau | Ukraine
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Dec. 27, 1967, 11:28 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

US-A (Upravlenniye Sputnik Aktivny) were active radar satellites for ocean surveillance. The high power consumtion of the active radar required a nuclear reactor as power source. The satellites were known as RORSAT in the west. The US-AO series consisted of satellites, which tested all the system components but the nuclear reactor. They were battery powered.

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Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-V 3

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 26, 1967, 9:01 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-U2-V satellites were Soviet scientific satellites launched as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik program. They investigated ionospheric phenomenons.

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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-U1-G 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 19, 1967, 6:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite used to study the effects of solar activity on the upper atmosphere.

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Voskhod | Zenit-2 57

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
Dec. 16, 1967, noon
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor Delta E1 | Pioneer 8

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 13, 1967, 2:08 p.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.

Heliocentric N/A
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