Apr 17 1965
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS LXV from the Baikonur launch complex 200 mi, northeast of Tyuratam, Tass announced. The satellite carried scientific instruments for continuing the Soviet space exploration program. Orbital data: apogee, 342 km. (212.4 mi.) ; perigee, 210 km. (130.4 mi,) ; period, 89.8 min.; inclination, 65°. All systems were functioning normally. (Tass, Krasnaya Zvezda, 4/18/65, 1, ATSS-T Trans,; SBD, 4/22/65, 290)
In an article discussing major American testing sites, Howard Simons and Chalmers M. Roberts of the Washington Post said: "Indeed it is from Vandenberg and not Cape Kennedy, Fla, that the majority of American satellites are launched. Between Jan, 1, 1964, and Oct. 31, 1964, for example, 33 or three times as many satellites were successfully put into space from Vandenberg as from Cape Kennedy, "The great majority of the satellites launched from Vandenberg, the hub of what is officially called the Air Force Western Test Range, are military satellites with secret payloads or reconnaissance cameras capable of peering down on Russia and China." (Simons and Roberts, Wash, Post, 4/17/65)
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