1962 in spaceflight
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Orbital and Suborbital launches
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Deep space rendezvous
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 January | Ranger 3 | Flyby of the Moon | Failed impactor, closest approach: Template:Convert |
| 26 April | Ranger 4 | Lunar impact | Impacted far side, no data returned |
| 21 October | Ranger 5 | Flyby of the Moon | Failed impactor, closest approach: Template:Convert |
| 14 December | Mariner 2 | Flyby of Venus | Closest approach: Template:Convert |
Orbital launch statistics
By country
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 59 | 50 | 8 | 1 | |
| World | Script error: No such module "math". | Script error: No such module "math". | Script error: No such module "math". | Script error: No such module "math". | |
By rocket
| Rocket | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | |
| Atlas LV-3B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delta A | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Only flights |
| Delta B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Template:Flagcountry | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Molniya 8K78 | Template:Flagcountry | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Scout X-2 | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Only flights |
| Scout X-2M | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Scout X-3 | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Retired |
| Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 18 | 16 | 1 | 1 | |
| Thor DM-21 Agena-D | Script error: No such module "flag". | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DM-19 Delta | Script error: No such module "flag". | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Vostok-K 8K72K | Template:Flagcountry | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vostok-2 8A92 | Template:Flagcountry | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight |
By orbit
| Orbital regime | Launches | Successes | Failures | Accidentally Achieved |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low Earth | 62 | 55 | 7 | 5 | |
| Medium Earth | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |
| High Earth | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Including Highly elliptical orbits |
| Heliocentric | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
References
Footnotes
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