Orbital launches in 1962
Launches:
| Total: 81 | Success: 64 | Partial failure: 8 | Failure: 9 |
Launches by month:
Launches by launch sites
* for airborne launches the take off site of the carrier aircraft is considered
Launches by countries
Rockets:
| Thor-Agena | 26 |
| Atlas-Agena | 13 |
| Kosmos | 8 |
| Thor-Delta | 6 |
| Molniya | 6 |
| Vostok-2 | 5 |
| Thor-Able-Star | 3 |
| Atlas D | 3 |
| Vostok K | 3 |
| Others | 8 |
Launches:
| Date | Site | Rocket | Payload | Notes | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-01-13 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-3 6 (Discoverer 37) | failure | |
| 1962-01-24 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Able-Star Thor DM-21A Ablestar | LOFTI 2 / SECOR (1) (EGRS (1)) / Poppy 1 (Solrad 4A) / Injun 2 / Surcal 1 | failure | |
| 1962-01-26 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Ranger 3 | B | success |
Agena B second stage guidance system failure | |||||
| 1962-02-08 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Delta Thor DM-19 Delta | TIROS 4 | success | |
| 1962-02-20 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas D | Mercury MA-6 | M | success |
First US manned orbital launch. | |||||
| 1962-02-21 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | P-102 Group 0-D (P-102 7151) | pfailure | |
Agena failed to restart to circularize orbit. | |||||
| 1962-02-27 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 1 (Discoverer 38) | success | |
| 1962-03-07 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Samos-E5 3 (Samos 6) | success | |
| 1962-03-07 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Delta Thor DM-19 Delta | OSO 1 | success | |
| 1962-03-16 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 1 (Sputnik 11) (DS-2 #1) | success | |
| 1962-04-06 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 2 (Sputnik 12) (1MS #1) | success | |
| 1962-04-09 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | MIDAS 5 / West Ford Drag | success | |
| 1962-04-18 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 2 (Discoverer 39) | success | |
| 1962-04-23 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Ranger 4 | B | success |
| 1962-04-24 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 3 (Sputnik 13) (2MS #1) | success | |
| 1962-04-26 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Samos-E6 1 (Samos 7) | success | |
| 1962-04-26 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Delta Thor DM-19 Delta | Ariel 1 (UK 1) | success | |
| 1962-04-26 | Vandenberg | Scout X-2 | Poppy 2 (Solrad 4B) | failure | |
| 1962-04-26 | Baikonur | Vostok K 8K72K | Kosmos 4 (Sputnik 14) (Zenit-2 #2) | success | |
| 1962-04-29 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 3 | success | |
| 1962-05-10 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Able-Star Thor DM-21A Ablestar | ANNA 1A | failure | |
Able-Star failed to ignite. | |||||
| 1962-05-15 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-5 5 | success | |
| 1962-05-24 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas D | Mercury MA-7 | M | success |
| 1962-05-24 | Vandenberg | Scout X-2M | DSAP-1 F1 | failure | |
| 1962-05-28 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 5 (Sputnik 15) (2MS #2) | success | |
| 1962-05-30 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 4 | success | |
| 1962-06-01 | Baikonur | Vostok-2 8A92 | Zenit-2 #3 | failure | |
Shutdown of Block B strap-on engine stage 1.8 seconds after liftoff. The booster crashed 300 m from the pad. Pad damaged. | |||||
| 1962-06-02 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 5 / OSCAR 2 | success | |
| 1962-06-17 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Samos-E6 2 (Samos 8) | success | |
| 1962-06-18 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | P-102 Group 2-D 1 | success | |
| 1962-06-19 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Delta Thor DM-19 Delta | TIROS 5 | success | |
| 1962-06-23 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 6 | success | |
| 1962-06-28 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | KH-4 7 | success | |
| 1962-06-30 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 6 (Sputnik 16) (DS-P1 #1) | success | |
| 1962-07-10 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Delta Thor DM-19 Delta | Telstar 1 | success | |
| 1962-07-18 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Samos-E6 3 (Samos 9) | success | |
| 1962-07-21 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 8 | success | |
| 1962-07-22 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Mariner 1 | B | failure |
Destroyed by range safety. | |||||
| 1962-07-28 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 9 | success | |
| 1962-07-28 | Baikonur | Vostok-2 8A92 | Kosmos 7 (Sputnik 17) (Zenit-2 #4) | success | |
| 1962-08-02 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | KH-4 10 | success | |
| 1962-08-05 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Samos-E6 4 (Samos 10) | success | |
| 1962-08-11 | Baikonur | Vostok K 8K72K | Vostok 3 (Vostok-3KA #5) | M | success |
| 1962-08-12 | Baikonur | Vostok K 8K72K | Vostok 4 (Vostok-3KA #6) | M | success |
| 1962-08-18 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 8 (Sputnik 18) (DS-K-8 #1) | success | |
| 1962-08-23 | Vandenberg | Scout X-2M | DSAP-1 F2 | success | |
| 1962-08-25 | Baikonur | Molniya 8K78 | Venera 2MV-1 #3 (Sputnik 19) | B | pfailure |
At T+60 min 50 sec one of the four solid motors of the escape stage's BOZ unit did not fire. The resulting asymmetric torque caused the stage to lose correct attitude and three seconds after ignition of the main engine S1.5400A1 it began to tumble. | |||||
| 1962-08-27 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Mariner 2 | B | success |
| 1962-08-29 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | KH-4 11 | success | |
| 1962-09-01 | Baikonur | Molniya 8K78 | Venera 2MV-1 #4 (Sputnik 20) | B | pfailure |
At T+ 61 min 30 sec the fuel valve did not open. | |||||
| 1962-09-01 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-5 6 | success | |
| 1962-09-12 | Baikonur | Molniya 8K78 | Venera 2MV-2 #1 (Sputnik 21) | B | pfailure |
Failure at T+531 sec | |||||
| 1962-09-17 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 12 / TRS 2 (ERS 2) | success | |
| 1962-09-18 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Delta Thor DM-19 Delta | TIROS 6 | success | |
| 1962-09-27 | Baikonur | Vostok-2 8A92 | Kosmos 9 (Zenit-2 #5) | success | |
| 1962-09-29 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | Alouette 1 / TAVE | success | |
| 1962-09-29 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | KH-4 13 | success | |
| 1962-10-02 | Cape Canaveral | Delta A | Explorer 14 (EPE B) | success | |
| 1962-10-03 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas D | Mercury MA-8 | M | success |
| 1962-10-09 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-5 7 | success | |
| 1962-10-17 | Baikonur | Vostok-2 8A92 | Kosmos 10 (Zenit-2 #6) | success | |
| 1962-10-18 | Cape Canaveral | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Ranger 5 | B | success |
| 1962-10-20 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | Kosmos 11 (DS-A1 #1) | success | |
| 1962-10-24 | Baikonur | Molniya 8K78 | Mars 2MV-4 1 (Sputnik 22) | B | pfailure |
Failure 16 seconds after ignition of Stage 4 | |||||
| 1962-10-25 | Kapustin Yar | Kosmos 63S1 | 1MS #2 | failure | |
Launch vehicle failed to orbit - unknown cause. | |||||
| 1962-10-26 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | Star-Rad 1 | success | |
| 1962-10-27 | Cape Canaveral | Delta A | Explorer 15 (EPE C) | success | |
| 1962-10-31 | Cape Canaveral | Thor-Able-Star Thor DM-21A Ablestar | ANNA 1B | success | |
| 1962-11-01 | Baikonur | Molniya 8K78 | Mars 1 (Sputnik 23) | B | success |
| 1962-11-04 | Baikonur | Molniya 8K78 | Mars 2MV-3 1 (Sputnik 24) | B | pfailure |
Failure after T+260 sec | |||||
| 1962-11-05 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 14 | success | |
| 1962-11-11 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | Samos-E6 5 (Samos 11) / TRS 1 | success | |
| 1962-11-24 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | KH-4 15 | success | |
| 1962-12-04 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | KH-4 16 | success | |
| 1962-12-13 | Cape Canaveral | Delta B | Relay 1 | success | |
| 1962-12-13 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | Poppy 3A / Poppy 3B / Injun 3 / Surcal 2 / Calsphere 1 / Wild Bill 2 | pfailure | |
| 1962-12-14 | Vandenberg | Thor-Agena Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | KH-4 17 | success | |
| 1962-12-16 | Wallops Island | Scout X-3 | Explorer 16 (S 55b) | pfailure | |
| 1962-12-17 | Vandenberg | Atlas-Agena Atlas LV-3A / Agena B | MIDAS 6 / TRS 3 / TRS 4 | failure | |
| 1962-12-19 | Vandenberg | Scout X-3 | Transit-5A 1 | success | |
| 1962-12-22 | Baikonur | Vostok-2 8A92 | Kosmos 12 (Zenit-2 #7) | success | |