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Thor Delta C | Explorer 28

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 29, 1965, noon

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Explorer 28 (IMP 3) was a solar-cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas.

Elliptical Orbit

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Atlas D | OV1-3

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 28, 1965, 2:54 a.m.

Status: Launch Failure

Mission:

The OV1 (Orbiting Vehicle 1) were small research satellite to be launched piggy back on Atlas ICBM test flights. They consisted in general of the OV1 satellite and the OV1-PM propulsion module (or upper stage) to reach orbit.

Low Earth Orbit

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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 18

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 27, 1965, 8:48 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The Program 206 satellite, carrying the KH-7 (Keyhole 7) camera system (codenamed Gambit-1), was the first successful high resolution space reconnaissance program. It was managed by NRO's Program A, the USAF-led segment of the National Reconnaissance Program managed from Los Angeles AFB in El Segundo, California.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Voskhod | Zenit-4 7

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 25, 1965, 10:50 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Zenit-4 film-return reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit

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Saturn I | Pegasus 2

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 25, 1965, 7:35 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The mission of the Pegasus spacecraft was to measure meteoroid abundances in the region near the earth.

Low Earth Orbit

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Atlas D | FIRE 2

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 22, 1965, 9:55 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

FIRE (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry) was a high-speed reentry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft reentering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 miles per hour.

Suborbital

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Thor Burner 1 | OPS 8386

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
May 20, 1965, 4:30 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The single DSAP-3 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 3) was a modified DSAP-2 satellite to provide experimental tactical access to weather data.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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Little Joe II | A-003

Convair | United States of America
White Sands Missile Range
May 19, 1965, 1:01 p.m.

Status: Launch Failure

Mission:

A-003 was the fourth abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This particular flight is notable because during the abort test flight, an actual abort situation occurred, and further proved the Apollo launch escape system (LES). The CM was successfully pulled away from the malfunctioning Little Joe booster and it landed safely under parachutes.

Suborbital

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