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==Launches==
This is a list of [[spaceflight]]s launched in [[1962]].
{{incomplete list}}
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! Launch Date/Time
! [[Rocket]]
! Launch <br> Site
! Launch Contractor
! Payload
! Operator
! [[Orbit]]
! Mission/<br>Function
! Re-Entry/<br>Destruction
! Outcome
! Remarks
|-
||[[January 13]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Corona (satellite)|Discoverer 37]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Spy satellite]]
||N/A
||'''Failure'''
||
|-
| rowspan=5 |[[January 24]]
| rowspan=5 |[[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor Able-Star]]
| rowspan=5 |[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
| rowspan=5 |[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[LOFTI 2A]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Low frequency research
| rowspan=5 |[[January 24]], [[1962]]
| rowspan=5 |'''Failure'''
| rowspan=5 |First attempt to launch 5 satellites. Failure due to programmer malfunction
|-
||[[SECOR 1A]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Satellite navigation system]]
|-
||[[Solrad | Solrad 4A]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Solar physics]] (covert [[ELINT]])
|-
||[[Injun 2]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Ionosphere|Ionospheric research]]
|-
||[[Surcal 1]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
|-
||[[January 26]] <br> 20:30 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Ranger 3]]
||[[NASA]]
||Intended: [[Moon|Lunar]] impact, Actual:Lunar fly-by
||Lunar research
||[[January 28]], [[1962]] (last signal), now in heliocentric orbit
||Partial failure
||Missed the moon by 36,800 km due to malfunction in booster guidance system
|-
||[[February 8]] <br> 12:29 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta DM-19]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[TIROS|TIROS 4]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Weather satellite]]
||[[June 30]], [[1962]] (last signal)
||Successful
||
|-
||[[February 20]] <br> 14:47 [[GMT]]
||[[Convair]] [[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas D]]
||LC-14, [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Mercury-Atlas 6]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[John Glenn]])
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Manned Orbital Flight
||[[February 20]], [[1962]] <br> 19:43 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||First American manned orbital spaceflight.
|-
||[[February 21]] <br> 18:44 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||Samos F2-1
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[February 27]] <br> 21:50 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Corona (satellite)|Discoverer 38]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[March 3]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Aerial capsule recovery
|-
||[[March 7]] <br> 16:04 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta DM-19]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Orbiting Solar Observatory|OSO 1]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Solar physics]]
||May 1964 (last signal)
||Successful
||
|-
||[[March 7]] <br> 19:12 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos 6]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Partial success
||Film capsule recovery failed
|-
||[[March 16]] <br> 12:00 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 1]] aka Sputnik 11
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Technology, Ionospheric research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[March 29]] <br> 07:27 [[GMT]]
||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-2]]
||[[Wallops Flight Facility|Wallops Island]]
||<!-- NASA? -->
||[[P21A]]
||<!-- NASA? -->
||[[Sub-orbital]]
||Ionospheric research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[April 6]] <br> 17:16 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 2]] aka Sputnik 12
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Ionospheric research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[April 9]] <br> 15:50 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[MIDAS 5]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[April 18]]
||
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Corona (satellite)|Discoverer 39]] (1962 Lambda 1)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Space research
||[[May 25]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||
|-
||[[April 23]] <br> 20:50 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Ranger 4]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Moon|Lunar]] impact
||Lunar research
||[[April 26]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||Moon-impact, but on the far side, no scientific data transmitted
|-
||[[April 24]] <br> 04:04 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 3]] aka Sputnik 13
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Ionospheric research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[April 25]] <br> 14:00 [[GMT]]
||[[Saturn I (rocket)|Saturn I (C-1)]]
||LC-34, [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Project Highwater|Highwater]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Sub-orbital]]
||Test Saturn 1 [[Launch vehicle]]. Investigate ice cloud in upper atmosphere.
||[[April 25]], [[1962]] <br> 14:02 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||Self destructed after objectives completed
|-
||[[April 26]]
||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-2]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Navy]]
||[[Solrad | SOLRAD 4B]]
||[[US Navy]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Solar physics]] (covert [[ELINT]])
||[[April 26]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||
|-
||[[April 26]] <br> 10:04 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 4]] aka Sputnik 14
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[April 26]] <br> 18:00 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta DM-19]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]], UK Science Research Council
||Ariel 1 aka UK 1
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Space physics
||[[November 9]], [[1964]]
||Successful
||First British experiments in orbit
|-
||[[April 26]] <br> 21:36 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos 7]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Space physics
||[[April 28]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||
|-
||[[May 10]]
||[[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor Able-Star]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||Anna 1A
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Satellite navigation system]]
||N/A
||'''Failure'''
||
|-
||[[May 15]] <br> 19:40 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-5 9034A
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[May 19]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[May 24]]
||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-2]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-1A F1]]
||[[United States Department of Defense|DoD]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Military [[weather satellite]]
||N/A
||'''Failure'''
||
|-
||[[May 24]] <br> 12:45 [[GMT]]
||[[Convair]] [[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas D]]
||LC-14, [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Mercury-Atlas 7]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[Scott Carpenter]])
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Manned Orbital Flight
||[[May 24]], [[1962]] <br> 17:41 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||
|-
||[[May 28]] <br> 03:07 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 5]] aka Sputnik 15
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Earth science
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[May 30]] <br> 00:28 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 4 (1962 Phi 1)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[June 2]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[June 1]]
||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok 2]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (6)]]
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||'''Failure'''
||
|-
| rowspan=2 |[[June 2]] <br> 00:43 [[GMT]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]
| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]
||[[OSCAR|OSCAR 2]]
||Project Oscar
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Amateur radio satellite
||N/R
||Successful
||
|-
||KH-4 5 (KH-4 9036)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/R
||Partial failure
||Capsule not recovered
|-
||[[June 17]] <br> 18:14 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos 8]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[June 18]] <br> 20:24 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos F2-2]] (1962 Omega 1)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[June 19]] <br> 12:14 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta DM-19]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[TIROS|TIROS 5]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Weather satellite]]
||[[May 14]], [[1963]] (deactivated)
||Successful
||
|-
||[[June 23]] <br> 00:28 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 6 (KH-4 9037)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[June 28]] <br> 00:12 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 7 (KH-4 9038)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[July 2]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[June 30]] <br> 16:04 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 6]] aka Sputnik 16
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[July 18]] <br> 20:53 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos 9]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[July 21]] <br> 00:57 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 8 (KH-4 9039)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[July 21]], [[1962]]
||Partial success
||Aborted after 6 orbits
|-
||[[July 22]] <br> 09:21 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Mariner 1]]
||[[NASA]]
||Intended: [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] Fly-by
||Venus exploration
||[[July 22]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||Failed 293 seconds after launch
|-
||[[July 28]] <br> 00:28 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 9 (KH-4 9040)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[August 1]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[July 28]] <br> 09:21 [[GMT]]
||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok 2]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 7]] aka Sputnik 17
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance, Space science
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[August 2]] <br> 00:28 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 10 (KH-4 9041)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[August 6]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[August 5]] <br> 18:00 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos 10]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[August 11]] <br> 08:30 [[GMT]]
||[[Vostok rocket|A-1]]
||LC-1, [[Baikonur]]
||[[RVSN]]
||[[Vostok 3]], 1 Cosmonaut ([[Andrian Nikolayev]])
||[[RVSN]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Manned Orbital Flight
||[[August 15]], [[1962]] <br> 06:56 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||
|-
||[[August 12]] <br> 08:02 [[GMT]]
||[[Vostok rocket|A-1]]
||LC-1, [[Baikonur]]
||[[RVSN]]
||[[Vostok 4]], 1 Cosmonaut ([[Pavel Popovich]])
||[[RVSN]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Manned Orbital Flight
||[[August 15]], [[1962]] <br> 06:59 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||
|-
||[[August 18]] <br> 05:02 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 8]] aka Sputnik 18
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[August 23]] <br> 11:45 [[GMT]]
||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-2]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Defense Meteorological Satellite Program|DMSP-1A F2]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Military [[weather satellite]]
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[August 25]] <br> 02:52 [[GMT]]
||[[Molniya rocket|Molniya]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Sputnik 19]] (Venera 2a)
||USSR
||Intended: [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] landing
||Venus exploration
||[[August 28]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||Escape stage failed
|-
||[[August 27]] <br> 06:53 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Mariner 2]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Venus (planet)|Venus]] Fly-by
||Venus exploration
||[[January 3]], [[1963]] (last signal)
||Successful
||First successful US Venus mission. Fly-by on [[December 14]], [[1962]]
|-
||[[August 29]] <br> 01:12 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 11 (KH-4 9044)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[September 2]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[September 1]] <br> 02:24 [[GMT]]
||[[Molniya rocket|Molniya]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Sputnik 20]] (Venera 2b)
||USSR
||Intended: [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] landing
||Venus exploration
||[[September 6]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||Escape stage failed
|-
||[[September 1]] <br> 20:38 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-5 6 (KH-4 9042A)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||N/A
||[[September 2]], [[1962]]
||Partial success
||Capsule not recovered
|-
||[[September 12]] <br> 01:40 [[GMT]]
||[[Molniya rocket|Molniya]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Sputnik 21]] (Venera 2c)
||USSR
||Intended: [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] landing
||Venus exploration
||[[September 12]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||Third stage exploded
|-
| rowspan=2 |[[September 17]] <br> 20:38 [[GMT]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor Agena-B]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]
| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 12
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[September 18]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||TRS 2 (ERS 2)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Solar cells damage test
||N/A
||'''Failure'''
||Failed to deploy
|-
||[[September 18]] <br> 08:52 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta DM-19]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[TIROS|TIROS 6]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Weather satellite]]
||[[October 21]], [[1963]] (last signal)
||Successful
||
|-
||[[September 27]] <br> 09:36 [[GMT]]
||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok 2]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 9]]
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[September 29]] <br> 06:05 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Alouette 1]]
||Canadian Defence Research Board-Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Ionospheric research
||Still in orbit, last signal: September 1971
||Successful
||First Canadian satellite
|-
||[[September 29]] <br> 23:45 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 13 (KH-4 9045)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||First use of stellar camera
|-
||[[October 2]] <br> 21:30 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta-A]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Explorer program|Explorer 14]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Energetic particles research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[October 3]] <br> 12:15 [[GMT]]
||[[Convair]] [[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas D]]
||LC-14, [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Mercury-Atlas 8]] <br> 1 Astronaut ([[Walter Schirra]])
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Manned Orbital Flight
||[[October 3]], [[1962]] <br> 21:28 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||
|-
||[[October 9]] <br> 18:58 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-5 7 (KH-4 9046A)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[October 13]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[October 17]] <br> 09:21 [[GMT]]
||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok 2]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 10]]
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[October 18]] <br> 16:59 [[GMT]]
||[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12|LC-12]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Ranger 5]]
||[[NASA]]
||Intended: [[Moon|Lunar]] impact
||Lunar research
||now in heliocentric orbit
||'''Failure'''
||Missed the moon by 725 km
|-
||[[October 20]] <br> 03:50 [[GMT]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 11]]
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance, Space research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[October 24]] <br> 17:55 [[GMT]]
||[[Molniya rocket|Molniya]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Sputnik 22]] (Mars 1c)
||USSR
||Intended: [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] fly-by
||Mars exploration
||[[October 24]], [[1962]]
||'''Failure'''
||Failed while still in earth orbit
|-
||[[October 25]]
||Kosmos
||[[Kapustin Yar]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos (12)]]
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||N/A
||N/A
||'''Failure'''
||
|-
||[[October 26]] <br> 16:19 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[STARAD|STARAD 1]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Magnetospheric research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[October 27]] <br> 23:17 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta-A]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Explorer program|Explorer 15]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Energetic particles research
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[October 31]] <br> 08:09
||[[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor Able-Star]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||Anna 1B
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Satellite navigation system]]
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[November 1]] <br> 16:14 [[GMT]]
||[[Molniya rocket|Molniya]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Mars 1]] (Sputnik 23)
||USSR
||[[Mars (planet)|Mars]] fly-by
||Mars exploration
||[[March 21]], [[1963]] (last signal), now in heliocentric orbit
||Partial failure
||Loss of signal at earth-distance of 107 mio km, Mars fly-by on [[June 19]], [[1963]] without data transmission
|-
||[[November 4]] <br> 15:35 [[GMT]]
||[[Molniya rocket|Molniya]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Sputnik 24]]
||USSR
||[[Mars (planet)|Mars]] landing
||Mars exploration
||[[January 19]], [[1963]]
||'''Failure'''
||Burn for Mars trajectory failed, destroying spacecraft
|-
||[[November 5]] <br> 22:19 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 14 (KH-4 9047)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Military satellite
||[[December 3]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||
|-
| rowspan=2 |[[November 11]] <br> 20:24 [[GMT]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
| rowspan=2 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]
| rowspan=2 |[[US Air Force]]
||[[Samos (satellite)|Samos 11]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||TRS-1 (ERS-1)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Solar cell damage test
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[November 16]] <br> 17:45 [[GMT]]
||[[Saturn I (rocket)|Saturn I (C-1)]]
||LC-34, [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Project Highwater|Highwater]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Sub-orbital]]
||Test Saturn 1 [[Launch vehicle]]. Investigate ice cloud in upper atmosphere.
||[[November 16]], [[1962]] <br> 17:49 [[GMT]]
||Successful
||Self destructed after objectives completed
|-
||[[November 24]] <br> 22:04 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-B]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 15 (KH-4 9048)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[December 4]] <br> 21:36 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 16 (KH-4 9049)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Partial failure
||Capsule not recovered
|-
||[[December 13]] <br> 23:30 [[GMT]]
||[[Delta rocket|Delta-B]]
||[[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 17|LC-17]], [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]]
||[[NASA]]
||Relay 1
||[[NASA]]
||[[Medium Earth Orbit|MEO]]
||[[Communications satellite]]
||[[February 10]], [[1965]] (last signal)
||Successful
||
|-
| rowspan=5 |[[December 13]] <br> 04:04 [[GMT]]
| rowspan=5 |[[Thor (launch vehicle)|Thor Agena-D]]
| rowspan=5 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]
| rowspan=5 |[[US Navy]]
||Injun 3
||[[US Navy]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||[[Magnetosphere]] research
||[[August 25]], [[1968]]
||Successful
||
|-
||SURCAL 1A
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||SURCAL 2A
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||Calsphere 1A
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||1962 Beta Tau 1<br>[[Poppy (satellite)|Poppy]] 1
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Highly Elliptical Orbit|HEO]]
||Surveillance
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[December 14]] <br> 21:22 [[GMT]]
||[[Thor Agena|Thor Agena-D]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||KH-4 17 (KH-4 9050)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[December 18]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
||[[December 16]] <br> 14:38 [[GMT]]
||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-3]]
||[[Wallops Flight Facility|Wallops Island]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Explorer program|Explorer 16]]
||[[NASA]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Micrometeorid satellite
||July 1963
||Successful
||
|-
| rowspan=3 |[[December 17]]
| rowspan=3 |[[Atlas (rocket)|Atlas Agena-B]]
| rowspan=3 |[[Vandenberg AFB]]
| rowspan=3 |[[US Air Force]]
||TRS-3 (ERS-3)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Solar cell damage test
| rowspan=3 |[[December 17]], [[1962]]
| rowspan=3 |'''Failure'''
| rowspan=3 |
|-
||TRS-4 (ERS-4)
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Solar cell damage test
|-
||[[MIDAS 6]]
||[[US Air Force]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
|-
||[[December 19]] <br> 01:26 [[GMT]]
||[[Scout (rocket)|Scout X-3]]
||[[Vandenberg AFB]]
||[[US Navy]]
||[[Transit (satellite)|Transit 5A]]
||[[US Navy]]
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||[[Satellite navigation system]]
||N/A
||Successful
||
|-
||[[December 22]] <br> 09:21 [[GMT]]
||[[Vostok rocket|Vostok-2]]
||[[Baikonur]]
||USSR
||[[Cosmos (satellite)|Cosmos 12]]
||USSR
||[[Low Earth orbit|LEO]]
||Surveillance
||[[December 30]], [[1962]]
||Successful
||Capsule recovered
|-
|}
== Deep Space Rendezvous in 1962 ==
*[[January 28]] — [[Ranger 3]] missed Moon by 36,793 km (impact mission)
*[[April 26]] — [[Ranger 4]] impacted the far side of the Moon, no pictures
*[[October 21]] — [[Ranger 5]] missed Moon by 724 km (impact mission)
*[[December 14]] — [[Mariner 2]] flyby of Venus (34,773 km)
==References==
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