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| Orbital launches | |
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| First | 13 January |
| Last | 22 December |
| Total | 81 |
| Successes | 65 |
| Failures | 15 |
| Partial failures | 1 |
| Catalogued | 72 |
| National firsts | |
| Spaceflight |  Turkey Norway Lebanon Pakistan |
| Satellite |  United Kingdom Canada |
| Rockets | |
| Maiden flights | Delta A Delta B Scout X-2 Scout X-2M Scout X-3 Thor DM-21 Agena-D Vostok-2 |
| Retirements | Scout X-2 Thor DM-19 Delta Thor DM-21 Ablestar |
| Crewed flights | |
| Orbital | 5 |
| Total travellers | 5 |
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| Date (GMT) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 January | Ranger 3 | Flyby of the Moon | Failed impactor, closest approach: 36,793 kilometres (22,862 mi) |
| 26 April | Ranger 4 | Lunar impact | Impacted far side, no data returned |
| 21 October | Ranger 5 | Flyby of the Moon | Failed impactor, closest approach: 724 kilometres (450 mi) |
| 14 December | Mariner 2 | Flyby of Venus | Closest approach: 34,773 kilometres (21,607 mi) |
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| Orbital launch attempts by country in 1962 | ||||||
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Soviet Union |
22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | |
 United States |
59 | 50 | 8 | 1 |
| Rocket | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-B | United States |
13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | |
| Atlas LV-3B | United States |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Delta A | United States |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Only flights |
| Delta B | United States |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Kosmos-2I 63S1 | Soviet Union |
8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |
| Molniya 8K78 | Soviet Union |
6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Scout X-2 | United States |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Only flights |
| Scout X-2M | United States |
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Scout X-3 | United States |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DM-21 Ablestar | United States |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Retired |
| Thor DM-21 Agena-B | United States |
18 | 16 | 1 | 1 | |
| Thor DM-21 Agena-D | United States |
8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Thor DM-19 Delta | United States |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | Retired |
| Vostok-K 8K72K | Soviet Union |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vostok-2 8A92 | Soviet Union |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Orbital regime | Launches | Successes | Failures | Accidentally Achieved |
Remarks |
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| 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 |
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