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||[[January 7]] <br> 21:07 [[GMT]]

||[[January 7]] <br> 21:07 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 18 (KH-4 9051)

||[[KH-4]] 18 (KH-4 9051)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[January 16]] <br> 22:04 [[GMT]]

||[[January 16]] <br> 22:04 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-B]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-B]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos F2-3]] (Ferret 2)

||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos F2-3]] (Ferret 2)
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|-

|-

||[[February 14]] <br> 05:16 [[GMT]]

||[[February 14]] <br> 05:16 [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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|-

||[[February 19]] <br> 16:33 [[GMT]]

||[[February 19]] <br> 16:33 [[GMT]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-3M]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-3M]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-2A F1]]

||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-2A F1]]
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||[[February 28]]

||[[February 28]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 19

||[[KH-4]]19

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[March 18]]

||[[March 18]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-6 1

||[[KH-6]]1

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

||[[March 21]] <br> 08:24 [[GMT]]

||[[March 21]] <br> 08:24 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|13|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 13]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

||[[March 28]] <br> 20:11 [[GMT]]

||[[March 28]] <br> 20:11 [[GMT]]

||[[Saturn I (rocket)|Saturn I]]

||[[Saturn I]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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||[[April 1]] <br> 22:05 [[GMT]]

||[[April 1]] <br> 22:05 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 20 (KH-4 9053)

||[[KH-4]] 20 (KH-4 9053)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 3]] <br> 01:55 [[GMT]]

||[[April 3]] <br> 01:55 [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 5]]

||[[April 5]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-3]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-3]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Navy]]

||[[US Navy]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5A 2]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5A 2]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 6]]

||[[April 6]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|14|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (14)]]

||Soviet Academy of Sciences

||Soviet Academy of Sciences

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 13]] <br> 11:02 [[GMT]]

||[[April 13]] <br> 11:02 [[GMT]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|14|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 14]]

||Soviet Academy of Sciences

||Soviet Academy of Sciences

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 22]] <br> 08:24 [[GMT]]

||[[April 22]] <br> 08:24 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|15|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 15]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 25]] <br> 20:11 [[GMT]]

||[[April 25]] <br> 20:11 [[GMT]]

||[[Saturn I (rocket)|Saturn I (C1)]]

||[[Saturn I]] (C1)

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34|LC-34]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 26]]

||[[April 26]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-2M]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-2M]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-2A F2]]

||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-2A F2]]
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||[[April 26]]

||[[April 26]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-5 8

||[[KH-5]]8

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[April 28]] <br> 09:36 [[GMT]]

||[[April 28]] <br> 09:36 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|16|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 16]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[May 7]] <br> 11:31 [[GMT]]

||[[May 7]] <br> 11:31 [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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||

||

|-

|-

| rowspan=5 |[[May 9]] <br> 20:09 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=5 |[[May 9]] <br> 20:09 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=5 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

|rowspan=5 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

| rowspan=5 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=5 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=5 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=5 |[[US Air Force]]

||[[MIDAS 7]]

||[[MIDAS 7]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]
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||[[May 18]] <br> 22:34 [[GMT]]

||[[May 18]] <br> 22:34 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-6 2

||[[KH-6]]2

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[May 22]] <br> 03:07 [[GMT]]

||[[May 22]] <br> 03:07 [[GMT]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|17|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 17]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[May 24]] <br> 10:48 [[GMT]]

||[[May 24]] <br> 10:48 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|18|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 18]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[June 1]]

||[[June 1]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|19a|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (19a)]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||

||

|-

|-

| rowspan=3 |[[June 12]]

|rowspan=3 |[[June 12]]

| rowspan=3 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

|rowspan=3 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

| rowspan=3 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=3 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=3 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=3 |[[US Air Force]]

||[[MIDAS 8]]

||[[MIDAS 8]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]
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||[[June 12]] <br> 23:58 [[GMT]]

||[[June 12]] <br> 23:58 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 21 (KH-4 9054)

||[[KH-4]] 21 (KH-4 9054)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[June 14]] <br> 11:58 [[GMT]]

||[[June 14]] <br> 11:58 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|R-7 8K72K (Vostok/A-1)]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok]] (R-7 8K72K)

||[[Gagarin's Start|LC-1]], [[Baikonur]]

||[[Gagarin's Start|LC-1/5]], [[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[RVSN]]

||[[RVSN]]

||[[Vostok 5]], 1 Cosmonaut ([[Valery Bykovsky]])

||[[Vostok 5]], 1 Cosmonaut ([[Valery Bykovsky]])
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|-

|-

||[[June 15]] <br> 09:29 [[GMT]]

||[[June 15]] <br> 09:29 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|R-7 8K72K (Vostok/A-1)]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok]] (R-7 8K72K)

||[[Gagarin's Start|LC-1]], [[Baikonur]]

||[[Gagarin's Start|LC-1/5]], [[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[RVSN]]

||[[RVSN]]

||[[Vostok 6]], 1 Cosmonaut ([[Valentina Tereshkova]])

||[[Vostok 6]], 1 Cosmonaut ([[Valentina Tereshkova]])
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| rowspan=5 |[[June 15]] <br> 14:38 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=5 |[[June 15]] <br> 14:38 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=5 |[[Thor Agena]]-D

| rowspan=5 |[[Thor Agena]]-D

| rowspan=5 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=5 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=5 |[[US Navy]]

| rowspan=5 |[[US Navy]]

||[[Solrad]] 6

||[[Solrad]] 6
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|-

||[[June 16]] <br> 01:55 [[GMT]]

||[[June 16]] <br> 01:55 [[GMT]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-3]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-3]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Navy]]

||[[US Navy]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5A 3]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5A 3]]
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|-

|-

||[[June 19]] <br> 09:50 [[GMT]]

||[[June 19]] <br> 09:50 [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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||

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[June 27]] <br> 00:43 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[June 27]] <br> 00:43 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

|rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 22 (KH-4 9056)

||[[KH-4]] 22 (KH-4 9056)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[June 28]] <br> 19:55 [[GMT]]

||[[June 28]] <br> 19:55 [[GMT]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-4]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-4]]

||[[Wallops Flight Facility|Wallops Island]]

||[[Wallops Flight Facility|Wallops Island]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]
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||[[June 29]] <br> 22:33 [[GMT]]

||[[June 29]] <br> 22:33 [[GMT]]

||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos F2-4]] (Ferret 3)

||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos F2-4]] (Ferret 3)
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|-

|-

||[[July 10]]

||[[July 10]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|19b|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (19b)]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[July 12]] <br> 20:38 [[GMT]]

||[[July 12]] <br> 20:38 [[GMT]]

||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-7 1

||[[KH-7]]1

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[July 19]]

||[[July 19]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 23 (KH-4 9057)

||[[KH-4]] 23 (KH-4 9057)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||

|-

|-

| rowspan=4 |[[July 19]] <br> 03:50 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=4 |[[July 19]] <br> 03:50 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=4 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

|rowspan=4 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-B]]

| rowspan=4 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=4 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=4 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=4 |[[US Air Force]]

||[[MIDAS 9]]

||[[MIDAS 9]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]
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|-

||[[July 19]] <br> 18:20 [[GMT]]

||[[July 19]] <br> 18:20 [[GMT]]

||[[North American Aviation|North American]] [[X-15]]

||[[North American Aviation|North American]] [[North American X-15|X-15]]

||[[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]], [[Edwards AFB]]

||[[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]], [[Edwards Air Force Base|Edwards AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[X-15 Flight 90|Flight 90]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[Joseph A. Walker]])

||[[X-15 Flight 90|Flight 90]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[Joseph A. Walker]])
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|-

||[[July 26]] <br> 14:38 [[GMT]]

||[[July 26]] <br> 14:38 [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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||[[July 31]]

||[[July 31]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-6 3 (KH-6 8003)

||[[KH-6]] 3 (KH-6 8003)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

||[[August 6]] <br> 06:00 [[GMT]]

||[[August 6]] <br> 06:00 [[GMT]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|19|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 19]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

||[[August 22]]

||[[August 22]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|20|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (20)]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[August 23]] <br> 18:05 [[GMT]]

||[[August 23]] <br> 18:05 [[GMT]]

||[[North American Aviation|North American]] [[X-15]]

||[[North American Aviation|North American]] [[North American X-15|X-15]]

||[[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]], [[Edwards AFB]]

||[[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]], [[Edwards Air Force Base|Edwards AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[X-15 Flight 91|Flight 91]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[Joseph A. Walker]])

||[[X-15 Flight 91|Flight 91]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[Joseph A. Walker]])
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||[[August 24]] <br> 00:30 [[GMT]]

||[[August 24]] <br> 00:30 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 A1 (KH-4A 1001)

||[[KH-4]] A1 (KH-4A 1001)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[August 29]] <br> 19:12 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[August 29]] <br> 19:12 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

|rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

||KH-5 9 (KH-4 9033)

||[[KH-5]] 9 (KH-4 9033)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||Surveillance

||Surveillance

||N/A

||N/A

| rowspan=2 |Successful

|rowspan=2 |Successful

| rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |

|-

|-

||1963-035B

||1963-035B
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||[[September 9]] <br> 19:26 [[GMT]]

||[[September 9]] <br> 19:26 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-7 2

||[[KH-7]]2

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[September 23]] <br> 22:48 [[GMT]]

||[[September 23]] <br> 22:48 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 A2 (KH-4A 1002)

||[[KH-4]] A2 (KH-4A 1002)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[September 27]]

||[[September 27]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-2B]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-2B]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-1A F3]]

||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-1A F3]]
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||

||

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[September 28]] <br> 20:09 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[September 28]] <br> 20:09 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Able-Star]]

|rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Able-Star]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Navy]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Navy]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5E 1]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5E 1]]

||[[US Navy]]

||[[US Navy]]
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||Space physics

||Space physics

||November 1974 (last data)

||November 1974 (last data)

| rowspan=2 |Successful

|rowspan=2 |Successful

| rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |

|-

|-

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5BN 1]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5BN 1]]
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||Still in orbit (since 1996 as NIMS)

||Still in orbit (since 1996 as NIMS)

|-

|-

| rowspan=3 |[[October 17]] <br> 02:24 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=3 |[[October 17]] <br> 02:24 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=3 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

|rowspan=3 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

| rowspan=3 |[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 13|LC-13]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

|rowspan=3 |[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 13|LC-13]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

| rowspan=3 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=3 |[[US Air Force]]

||ERS 12

||ERS 12

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]
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||Space physics

||Space physics

||N/A

||N/A

| rowspan=3 |Successful

|rowspan=3 |Successful

| rowspan=3 |Vela spacecrafts placed in 70,000 mile orbits

|rowspan=3 |Vela spacecrafts placed in 70,000 mile orbits

|-

|-

||[[Vela (satellite)|Vela 1A]]

||[[Vela (satellite)|Vela 1A]]
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|-

|-

||[[October 18]] <br> 09:36 [[GMT]]

||[[October 18]] <br> 09:36 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|20|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 20]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[October 24]]

||[[October 24]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|21|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (21)]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||

||

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[October 25]] <br> 18:57 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[October 25]] <br> 18:57 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

||KH-7 3

||[[KH-7]]3

| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

| rowspan=2 |Surveillance

|rowspan=2 |Surveillance

| rowspan=2 |N/A

|rowspan=2 |N/A

| rowspan=2 |Successful

|rowspan=2 |Successful

| rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |

|-

|-

||1963-041B

||1963-041B

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[October 29]] <br> 21:07 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[October 29]] <br> 21:07 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

|rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

||KH-5 10 (KH-5 9059A)

||[[KH-5]] 10 (KH-5 9059A)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||Surveillance

||Surveillance

||N/A

||N/A

| rowspan=2 |Successful

|rowspan=2 |Successful

| rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |

|-

|-

||Hitch Hiker 2

||Hitch Hiker 2
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|-

|-

||[[November 1]] <br> 08:52 [[GMT]]

||[[November 1]] <br> 08:52 [[GMT]]

||11A59 I1

||[[Polyot (rocket)|Polyot]] (R-7 11A59) I1

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31|LC-31/6]], [[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Polyot 1]]

||[[Polyot 1]]
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||[[November 9]]

||[[November 9]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 24 (1963-008X)

||[[KH-4]] 24 (1963-008X)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Cosmos 21]]

||{{Kosmos|21|C}}

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[November 16]] <br> 10:48 [[GMT]]

||[[November 16]] <br> 10:48 [[GMT]]

||[[Voskhod rocket|Voskhod]]

||[[Voskhod (rocket)|Voskhod]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|22|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 22]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[November 27]] <br> 02:24 [[GMT]]

||[[November 27]] <br> 02:24 [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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||[[November 27]] <br> 18:57 [[GMT]]

||[[November 27]] <br> 18:57 [[GMT]]

||[[Centaur (rocket stage)|Atlas Centaur-B]]

||[[Centaur (rocket stage)|Atlas Centaur-B]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||Atlas Centaur 2

||Atlas Centaur 2
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||[[November 27]] <br> 21:07 [[GMT]]

||[[November 27]] <br> 21:07 [[GMT]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 25 (KH-4 9061)

||[[KH-4]] 25 (KH-4 9061)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[November 28]]

||[[November 28]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok-2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (23)]] (Zenit-1)

||{{Kosmos|23|C}} ([[Zenit (satellite)|Zenit-1]])

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||Upper stage failed

||Upper stage failed

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[December 5]] <br> 21:51 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[December 5]] <br> 21:51 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Able-Star]]

|rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Able-Star]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Navy]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Navy]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5BN 2]]

||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5BN 2]]

||[[US Navy]]

||[[US Navy]]
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|-

|-

||[[December 13]] <br> 13:55 [[GMT]]

||[[December 13]] <br> 13:55 [[GMT]]

||Kosmos

||[[Kosmos (rocket family)|Kosmos]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||[[Kapustin Yar]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|23|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 23]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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||[[December 18]] <br> 21:50 [[GMT]]

||[[December 18]] <br> 21:50 [[GMT]]

||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

||[[Atlas (missile)|Atlas Agena-D]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||KH-7 4

||[[KH-7]]4

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[December 19]] <br> 09:21 [[GMT]]

||[[December 19]] <br> 09:21 [[GMT]]

||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok 2]]

||[[Vostok (rocket)|Vostok 2]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||[[Baikonur Cosmodrome|Baikonur]]

||USSR

||USSR

||{{Kosmos|24|C}}

||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 24]]

||USSR

||USSR

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
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|-

|-

||[[December 19]] <br> 18:43 [[GMT]]

||[[December 19]] <br> 18:43 [[GMT]]

||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-4]]

||[[Scout (rocket family)|Scout X-4]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 5|SLC-5]], [[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[Explorer program|Explorer 19]] (AD A)

||[[Explorer program|Explorer 19]] (AD A)
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|-

|-

||[[December 21]] <br> 09:21 <!-- or 09:30? --> [[GMT]]

||[[December 21]] <br> 09:21 <!-- or 09:30? --> [[GMT]]

||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]

||[[Delta (rocket family)|Delta-B]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]

||[[NASA]]

||[[NASA]]
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||

|-

|-

| rowspan=2 |[[December 21]] <br> 21:45 [[GMT]]

|rowspan=2 |[[December 21]] <br> 21:45 [[GMT]]

| rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

|rowspan=2 |[[PGM-17 Thor|Thor Agena-D]]

| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]

|rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg Air Force Base|Vandenberg AFB]]

| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

|rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]

||KH-4 26 (KH-4 9062)

||[[KH-4]] 26 (KH-4 9062)

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[US Air Force]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]

||Surveillance

||Surveillance

||N/A

||N/A

| rowspan=2 |Successful

|rowspan=2 |Successful

| rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |

|-

|-

||Hitch Hiker 3

||Hitch Hiker 3

Revision as of 00:44, 18 December 2008

Launches

This is a list of spaceflights launched in 1963.

Launch Date/Time Rocket Launch
Site 		Launch Contractor Payload Operator Orbit Mission/
Function 		Re-Entry/
Destruction 		Outcome Remarks
January 4
07:12 GMT 		Molniya-L Baikonur USSR Sputnik 25 (Luna 4c) USSR Intended: Soft lunar landing Lunar exploration January 5, 1963 Failure Spacecraft failed to escape for lunar trajectory
January 7
21:07 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 18 (KH-4 9051) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
January 16
22:04 GMT 		Thor Agena-B Vandenberg AFB US Air Force Samos F2-3 (Ferret 2) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
February 2 Molniya-L Baikonur USSR Luna 1963B (Luna 4d) USSR Intended: lunar landing Lunar exploration February 2, 1963 Failure Failure of upper stage gyro
February 14
05:16 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA Syncom 1 NASA Geosynchronous orbit Communications satellite Still in orbit Failure First satellite to reach geosynchronous orbit, but only after loss of signal
February 19
16:33 GMT 		Scout X-3M SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB US Air Force DMSP-2A F1 US Air Force LEO Military weather satellite N/A Successful
February 28 Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-419 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Failure
March 18 Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-61 US Air Force LEO Surveillance March 18, 1963 Failure Failed to reach orbit due to guidance malfunction
March 21
08:24 GMT 		Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance March 29, 1963 Successful Capsule recovered
March 28
20:11 GMT 		Saturn I LC-34, Cape Canaveral NASA (none), test flight SA-4 NASA Sub-orbital Test Launch vehicle's Engine out capability. March 28, 1963 Successful
April 1
22:05 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 20 (KH-4 9053) US Air Force LEO Surveillance April 4, 1963 Successful Capsule recovered
April 2
08:04 GMT 		Molniya-L Baikonur USSR Luna 4 USSR Intended: Lunar landing, Actual: Lunar fly-by Lunar exploration April 6, 1963 Partial success Fly-by at 8,336 km on April 5
April 3
01:55 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA Explorer 17 (AE-A) NASA LEO Atmospheric research July 10, 1963 (last signal) Successful
April 5 Scout X-3 SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB US Navy Transit 5A 2 US Navy LEO Satellite navigation system N/A Failure
April 6 Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos Soviet Academy of Sciences LEO Experimental weather satellite April 6, 1963 Failure
April 13
11:02 GMT 		Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos Soviet Academy of Sciences LEO Experimental weather satellite August 29, 1963 Successful First Soviet weather satellite
April 22
08:24 GMT 		Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance April 27, 1963 Successful Capsule recovered
April 25
20:11 GMT 		Saturn I (C1) LC-34, Cape Canaveral NASA (none) N/A N/A Test Launch vehicle's Engine out capability. N/A Successful
April 26 Scout X-2M SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB US Air Force DMSP-2A F2 US Air Force LEO Military weather satellite N/A Failure
April 26 Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-58 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Failure
April 28
09:36 GMT 		Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance May 8, 1963 Successful Capsule recovered
May 7
11:31 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA Telstar 2 AT&T, Bell Labs HEO Communications satellite May 16, 1965 (last signal) Successful
May 9
20:09 GMT 		Atlas Agena-B Vandenberg AFB US Air Force MIDAS 7 US Air Force MEO Surveillance of Soviet rocket launches April 1977 Successful
Dash-1 US Air Force MEO Experimental balloon satellite N/A
TRS-5 (ERS-5) US Air Force MEO Solar cell damage test N/A
TRS-6 (ERS-6) US Air Force MEO Solar cell damage test N/A
West Ford 2 US Air Force MEO Radio reflective experiment N/A
May 15
13:04 GMT 		Atlas D LC-14, Cape Canaveral US Air Force Mercury-Atlas 9
1 Astronaut (Gordon Cooper) 		NASA LEO Manned Orbital Flight May 16, 1963 Successful Final Mercury flight
May 18
22:34 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-62 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Failure reached orbit but Agena failed in flight
May 22
03:07 GMT 		Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
May 24
10:48 GMT 		Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance June 2, 1963 Successful Capsule recovered
June 1 Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO N/A N/A Failure
June 12 Atlas Agena-B Vandenberg AFB US Air Force MIDAS 8 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Failure
TRS-7 (ERS-7) US Air Force LEO Solar cell damage test N/A
TRS-8 (ERS-8) US Air Force LEO Solar cell damage test N/A
June 12
23:58 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 21 (KH-4 9054) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
June 14
11:58 GMT 		Vostok (R-7 8K72K) LC-1/5, Baikonur RVSN Vostok 5, 1 Cosmonaut (Valery Bykovsky) RVSN LEO Manned Orbital Flight June 19, 1963 Successful
June 15
09:29 GMT 		Vostok (R-7 8K72K) LC-1/5, Baikonur RVSN Vostok 6, 1 Cosmonaut (Valentina Tereshkova) RVSN LEO Manned Orbital Flight June 19, 1963 Successful First woman in space. Final Vostok flight.
June 15
14:38 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Navy Solrad6 US Air Force LEO Solar radiation research N/A Successful
LOFTI 2A US Navy LEO Navigation and global positioning N/A
SURCAL 1B US Navy LEO Surveillance N/A
RADOSE US Air Force LEO Radiation measurement N/A
1963-021E (Poppy2) US Navy LEO Surveillance N/A
June 16
01:55 GMT 		Scout X-3 SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB US Navy Transit 5A 3 US Navy LEO Satellite navigation system N/A Successful
June 19
09:50 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA TIROS 7 NASA LEO Weather satellite June 3, 1968 (deactivated) Successful
June 27
00:43 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 22 (KH-4 9056) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
Hitch Hiker US Air Force LEO Radiation measurements N/A
June 28
19:55 GMT 		Scout X-4 Wallops Island US Air Force Geophysical Research Sat US Air Force LEO Geophysical experiments N/A Successful
June 29
22:33 GMT 		Atlas Agena-B Vandenberg AFB US Air Force Samos F2-4 (Ferret 3) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
July 10 Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO N/A N/A Failure
July 12
20:38 GMT 		Atlas Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-71 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
July 19 Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 23 (KH-4 9057) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
July 19
03:50 GMT 		Atlas Agena-B Vandenberg AFB US Air Force MIDAS 9 US Air Force MEO Surveillance N/A Successful
TRS-9 (ERS-9) US Air Force MEO Solar cell damage test N/A
TRS-10 (ERS-10) US Air Force MEO Solar cell damage test N/A
Dash-2 US Air Force MEO Experimental balloon satellite April 12, 1971
July 19
18:20 GMT 		North American X-15 B-52, Edwards AFB US Air Force Flight 90
1 Astronaut (Joseph A. Walker) 		US Air Force/NASA Sub-orbital Manned Spaceflight July 19, 1963
18:31 GMT 		Successful First X-15 flight to qualify as spaceflight
July 26
14:38 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA Syncom 2 NASA, DoD Geosynchronous orbit Communications satellite Still in orbit Successful First successful geosynchronous satellite
July 31 Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-6 3 (KH-6 8003) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful Camera failed after 32 hours
August 6
06:00 GMT 		Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
August 22 Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance N/A Failure
August 23
18:05 GMT 		North American X-15 B-52, Edwards AFB US Air Force Flight 91
1 Astronaut (Joseph A. Walker) 		US Air Force/NASA Sub-orbital Manned Spaceflight August 23, 1963
18:17 GMT 		Successful Second and last X-15 flight to qualify as spaceflight. First instance of a single spacecraft making two flights
August 24
00:30 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 A1 (KH-4A 1001) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
August 29
19:12 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-5 9 (KH-4 9033) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
1963-035B US Air Force LEO Radar monitoring N/A
September 9
19:26 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-72 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
September 23
22:48 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 A2 (KH-4A 1002) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
September 27 Scout X-2B SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB US Air Force DMSP-1A F3 US Air Force LEO Military weather satellite N/A Failure
September 28
20:09 GMT 		Thor Able-Star Vandenberg AFB US Navy Transit 5E 1 US Navy LEO Space physics November 1974 (last data) Successful
Transit 5BN 1 US Navy LEO Satellite navigation system Still in orbit (since 1996 as NIMS)
October 17
02:24 GMT 		Atlas Agena-D LC-13, Cape Canaveral US Air Force ERS 12 US Air Force HEO Space physics N/A Successful Vela spacecrafts placed in 70,000 mile orbits
Vela 1A US Air Force Supersynchronous Orbit Nuclear test ban control deactivated after 5 years
Vela 1B US Air Force Supersynchronous Orbit Nuclear test ban control deactivated after 5 years
October 18
09:36 GMT 		Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance October 26, 1963 Success Capsule recovered
October 24 Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO N/A N/A Failure
October 25
18:57 GMT 		Atlas Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-73 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
1963-041B
October 29
21:07 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-5 10 (KH-5 9059A) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
Hitch Hiker 2 US Air Force LEO Radio monitoring N/A
November 1
08:52 GMT 		Polyot (R-7 11A59) I1 LC-31/6, Baikonur USSR Polyot 1 USSR LEO Spacecraft engineering N/A Successful
November 9 Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 24 (1963-008X) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Failure
November 11
06:28 GMT 		Molniya Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Zond test November 14, 1963 Partial failure Probably a test for Venera flights, escape stage failed
November 16
10:48 GMT 		Voskhod Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
November 27
02:24 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA Explorer 18 (IMP-A) NASA HEO Magnetospheric research May 10, 1965 (last signal) Successful
November 27
18:57 GMT 		Atlas Centaur-B Vandenberg AFB US Air Force Atlas Centaur 2 US Air Force LEO Centaur performing test N/A Successful
November 27
21:07 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 25 (KH-4 9061) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Partial failure Capsule was not recovered but remained in orbit
November 28 Vostok-2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos (Zenit-1) USSR LEO N/A N/A Failure Upper stage failed
December 5
21:51 GMT 		Thor Able-Star Vandenberg AFB US Navy Transit 5BN 2 US Navy LEO Satellite navigation system N/A Successful Nuclear powered
Transit 5E 3 US Navy LEO Satellite navigation system N/A Successful Solar powered
December 13
13:55 GMT 		Kosmos Kapustin Yar USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Engineering, space science March 27, 1964 Successful
December 18
21:50 GMT 		Atlas Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-74 US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
December 19
09:21 GMT 		Vostok 2 Baikonur USSR Template:Kosmos USSR LEO Surveillance December 28, 1963 Successful Capsule recovered
December 19
18:43 GMT 		Scout X-4 SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB NASA Explorer 19 (AD A) NASA LEO Atmospheric density measurement N/A Successful Balloon satellite
December 21
09:21 GMT 		Delta-B LC-17, Cape Canaveral NASA TIROS 8 NASA LEO Weather satellite July 1, 1967 (deactivated) Successful
December 21
21:45 GMT 		Thor Agena-D Vandenberg AFB US Air Force KH-4 26 (KH-4 9062) US Air Force LEO Surveillance N/A Successful
Hitch Hiker 3 US Air Force LEO Radar monitoring N/A

Deep Space Rendez-vous in 1963

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