| Year: | 1964 |
| First: | 11 January |
| Last: | 21 December |
| Total: | 101 |
| Success: | 83 |
| Failed: | 15 |
| Partial: | 3 |
| Catalogued: | 87 |
| Maidens: | Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D Atlas LV-3C Centaur-C Delta D Kosmos-1 63S3 Molniya-M 8K78M Titan II GLV Titan IIIA Vostok-2M 8A92M |
| Retired: | Delta B Scout X-3 Polyot 11A59 Vostok-K 8K72K |
| Orbital: | 1 |
| Totalcrew: | 3 |
| Date (UTC) | Spacecraft | Event | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 February | Lunar impact | Impacted Mare Tranquillitatis at 09:24:32, failed to return images | |
| 14 July | Closest approach:, communications system failed before flyby | ||
| 31 July | Lunar impact | Impacted Mare Nubium at 13:25:48, returned 4,308 images | |
| Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | 29 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 64 | 53 | 8 | 3 |
| Rocket | Country | Launches | Successes | Failures | Partial failures | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-B | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Atlas LV-3A Agena-D | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | ||
| Atlas LV-3C Centaur-C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Maiden flight | ||
| Delta B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Retired | ||
| Delta C | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Delta D | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | ||
| Kosmos-1 63S3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | ||
| Kosmos-2I 63S1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Molniya 8K78 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Molniya-M 8K78M | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | Maiden flight | ||
| Polyot 11A59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Retired | ||
| Saturn I | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | First orbital launch | ||
| Scout X-3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Retired | ||
| Scout X-4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Scout X-4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | First Italian satellite launch | ||
| Thor DSV-2A Ablestar | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Thor SLV-2 Agena-B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Thor SLV-2 Agena-D | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Titan II GLV | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight | ||
| Titan IIIA | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Maiden flight | ||
| Voskhod 11A57 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Vostok-K 8K72K | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Retired | ||
| Vostok-2 8A92 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Vostok-2M 8A92M | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maiden flight |
| Orbital regime | Launches | Achieved | Not Achieved | Accidentally Achieved | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low Earth | 77 | 68 | 8 | 2 | ||
| Medium Earth | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| High Earth | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | Including Highly elliptical orbits | |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Heliocentric | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 |