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Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit-O 2 & 5E-5

United States Air Force | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 13, 1964, 12:08 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.

Polar Orbit
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Atlas Centaur | Surveyor Mass Model

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 11, 1964, 2:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Surveyor-Model was a dummy mass onbaord of Centaur AC-4, launched on 11 December 1964, which was to test the closed loop Honeywell guidance system and perform the first restart of cryogenic RL10A-3 engines in space.

Low Earth Orbit
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Titan IIIA | Transtage 2

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Dec. 10, 1964, 4:53 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Test flights of the cryogenic Transtage stage.

Low Earth Orbit
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Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-MT 3

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 9, 1964, 11 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

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

Low Earth Orbit
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Little Joe II | A-002

Convair | United States of America
White Sands Missile Range
Dec. 8, 1964, 3 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

A-002 was the third abort test of the Apollo spacecraft.

Suborbital
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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 14

Convair | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Dec. 4, 1964, 7 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-2I 63S1 | DS-2 2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Dec. 1, 1964, 8:45 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Second DS-2 satellite

Low Earth Orbit
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Molniya 8K78 | Zond-2

Strategic Rocket Forces | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 30, 1964, 1:25 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mars flyby probe

Mars flyby
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Atlas Agena D | Mariner 4

Convair | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Nov. 28, 1964, 2:22 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Mars flyby probe which passed at a distance of 9,846 km from the Martian surface.

Mars flyby
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Scout X-4 | Explorer 24 & 25

Vought | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 21, 1964, 5:09 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Explorer 24 was placed in orbit together with Explorer 25 from a single launch vehicle. Explorer 24 was identical in configuration to the previously launched balloon satellites Explorer 9 and 19. The spacecraft was 3.6 m in diameter, was built of alternating layers of aluminum foil and plastic film, and was covered uniformly with 5.1-cm white dots for thermal control. It was designed to yield atmospheric density near perigee as a function of space and time from sequential observations of the sphere's position in orbit.

Elliptical Orbit
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