1963 in spaceflight
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Orbital and Suborbital launches
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Deep space rendezvous
| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April | Luna 4 | Flyby of the Moon | Failed lander, closest approach: Template:Convert |
| 19 June | Mars 1 | First flyby of Mars | Closest approach: Template:Convert, communications system failed before flyby |
Notable creations of orbital debris
| Date/Time (UTC) | Source object | Event type | Pieces tracked | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 May[1] | Westford-2 | Communications experiment | 46[1] | As part of an experiment to facilitate international telecommunications, the US Military deployed an artificial space ring consisting of hundreds of millions of tiny copper needles[2] which would act as antennas reflecting radio signals at the target wavelength of 8 GHz. A large proportion of the needles were not dispersed properly and remained stuck in clumps that were discovered and tracked by the SSN between 1966 and 1991. Template:Asof, 46 of the 144 detected debris clumps remain in orbit.[1] The needles that were properly dispersed are believed to have decayed.[1]
This event prompted international protests[3][4][5][6] and influenced the drafting of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.[3] |
Orbital launch statistics
By country
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 24 | 15 | 9 | 0 | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 46 | 35 | 8 | 3 | |
| 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". | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-D | Script error: No such module "flag". | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Atlas LV-3B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Atlas LV-3C Centaur-B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Only flight |
| Delta B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delta C | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Template:Flagcountry | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Molniya 8K78 | Template:Flagcountry | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Molniya-L 8K78L | Template:Flagcountry | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Polyot 11A59 | Template:Flagcountry | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Scout X-2B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Only flight |
| Scout X-2M | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Retired |
| Scout X-3 | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Scout X-3M | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Only flight |
| Scout X-4 | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DSV-2A Ablestar | Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thor SLV-2 Agena-D (Thor DM-21 Agena-D) | Script error: No such module "flag". | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | Redesignated midyear |
| Thrust Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-B | Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thrust Augmented Thor SLV-2A Agena-D | Script error: No such module "flag". | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Voskhod 11A57 | Template:Flagcountry | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Vostok-K 8K72K | Template:Flagcountry | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vostok-2 8A92 | Template:Flagcountry | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
By orbit
| Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not Achieved | Accidentally Achieved |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low Earth | 57 | 44 | 13 | 2 | |
| Medium Earth | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| High Earth | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | Including Highly elliptical orbits |
| Geosynchronous/transfer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heliocentric | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
References
Footnotes
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