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Thor DM-21 Ablestar | ANNA 1A

United States Air Force | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 10, 1962, 12:06 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

ANNA 1A (Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force) was the first dedicated satellite for geodesy. It featured Xenon flashing lights and radio transponders (SECOR) for tracking the satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Trailblazer 2 | Trailblazer IIb

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
May 6, 1962, 5:41 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Atmospheric reentry research payloads

Suborbital
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Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 3

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 29, 1962, 12:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The KH-4 (Keyhole-4) was fourth version in the Corona-program to build an optical reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Atlas Agena B | Samos-E6 1

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 26, 1962, 6:56 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Samos E-6 (Satellite and Missile Observation System) was an attempt to create an medium-resolution reconnaissance satellite with film return via reentry capsule.

Polar Orbit
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Thor Delta | Ariel 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 26, 1962, 6 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ariel is a series of British research satellites. Ariel 1 was designed to study solar radiation and its impact on Earth's ionosphere.

Low Earth Orbit
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Scout X-2 | SOLRAD 4B

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
April 26, 1962, 10:49 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 4B was a solar X-ray, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States Naval Research Laboratory, it was the fifth in both the SOLRAD and the GRAB (Galactic Radiation And Background) programs.

Low Earth Orbit
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Vostok | Zenit-2 2

Soviet Space Program | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
April 26, 1962, 10:02 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Zenit-2 film-return and ELINT reconnaissance satellite.

Low Earth Orbit
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Saturn I | Saturn SA-2

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 25, 1962, 2 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Second test flight of the Saturn I launch vehicle. It carried an experiment for Project Highwater.

Suborbital
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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Sputnik 13

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
April 24, 1962, 4 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Cosmos 3 was the first 2MS satellite deployed by the OKB-1. It operated until August 20, 1962 and re-entered the atmosphere on October 17, 1963 .

Elliptical Orbit
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Atlas Agena B | Ranger 4

United States Air Force | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
April 23, 1962, 8:50 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Ranger 4 was a spacecraft designed to softly impact the lunar surface. Its solar panels were never extended and its sun and earth acquisition system was not initiated due to a failure of a timer in its central computer. It impacted the far side of the Moon on April 26 after 64 hours of flight.

Lunar Impactor
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