Orbital and Suborbital launches
Deep space rendezvous Date (GMT)SpacecraftEventRemarks 28 January Ranger 3 Flyby of the Moon Failed impactor, closest approach: 26 April Ranger 4 Lunar impact Impacted far side, no data returned 21 October Ranger 5 Flyby of the Moon Failed impactor, closest approach: 14 December Mariner 2 Flyby of Venus Closest approach:
Orbital launch statistics By country
Country Launches Successes Failures Partialfailures 22 15 7 0 59 50 8 1 World
By rocket Rocket Country Launches Successes Failures Partial failures Remarks Atlas LV-3A Agena-B 13 10 3 0 Atlas LV-3B 3 3 0 0 Delta A 2 2 0 0 Only flights Delta B 1 1 0 0 Maiden flight Kosmos-2I 63S1 8 7 1 0 Molniya 8K78 6 1 5 0 Scout X-2 1 0 1 0 Only flights Scout X-2M 2 1 1 0 Maiden flight Scout X-3 2 2 0 0 Maiden flight Thor DM-21 Ablestar 3 1 2 0 Retired Thor DM-21 Agena-B 18 16 1 1 Thor DM-21 Agena-D 8 8 0 0 Maiden flight Thor DM-19 Delta 6 6 0 0 Retired Vostok-K 8K72K 3 3 0 0 Vostok-2 8A92 5 4 1 0 Maiden flight
By orbit Orbital regime Launches Successes Failures AccidentallyAchieved 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
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