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Scout A | Transit-O 10
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 18, 1966, 2:25 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 OrbitThor Delta E1 | Pioneer 7
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 17, 1966, 3:20 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.
Heliocentric N/AAtlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 31
Convair | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 16, 1966, 6:30 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 OrbitAtlas SLV-3 Agena D | Lunar Orbiter I
Convair | United States of AmericaCape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 10, 1966, 7:26 p.m.
Thorad SLV-2G Agena D | KH-4A 35
McDonnell Douglas | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 9, 1966, 8:46 p.m.
Voskhod | Zenit-4 21
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Aug. 8, 1966, 11:29 a.m.
Scout B | OV3-3
Vought | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 4, 1966, 10:45 a.m.
Titan IIIB | KH-8 1
Lockheed Martin | United States of AmericaVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
July 29, 1966, 6:30 p.m.
Voskhod | Zenit-4 20
Soviet Space Program | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 28, 1966, 10:50 a.m.
Soyuz 11A510 | US-AO 2
Energia | RussiaBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 20, 1966, 8:58 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
US-A (Upravlenniye Sputnik Aktivny) were active radar satellites for ocean surveillance. The high power consumtion of the active radar required a nuclear reactor as power source. The satellites were known as RORSAT in the west. The US-AO series consisted of satellites, which tested all the system components but the nuclear reactor. They were battery powered.
Low Earth Orbit
