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Nike Cajun | Trailblazer Pellet

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Nov. 7, 1964, 1:38 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test mission. Reached an apogee of 110 km.

Suborbital
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Scout X-4 | Explorer 23

Vought | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Nov. 6, 1964, 12:02 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Explorer 23 or S 55c micrometeoroid satellite was the third in the series of S 55 micrometeoroid satellites orbited by NASA.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas Agena D | Mariner 3

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 5, 1964, 7:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mariner 3 was a 260 kg solar-cell and battery-powered spacecraft designed to make scientific measurements in the vicinity of Mars and to obtain photographs of the planet's surface and transmit these to Earth.

Mars flyby
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | P-698BK Group 3-D 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 4, 1964, 2:12 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

ELINT/SIGINT satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 13

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 2, 1964, 9:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 24

RKK Energiya | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 28, 1964, 10:40 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-MG 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Oct. 24, 1964, 5:17 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The DS-MG satellites were a series of Soviet technolgy demonstration satellites launched as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik program.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas Agena D | KH-7 13

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 23, 1964, 6:27 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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Kosmos 65S3 | Strela-1 6,7,8

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Oct. 23, 1964, 7:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The Strela-1 satellites were prototype store-dump communications satellites for tactical communication.

Low Earth Orbit
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Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 12

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Oct. 17, 1964, 10:02 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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