Launches
ON RECORD24MISSIONS
21 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2026.
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January 30 in spaceflight
24 orbital launches flew on January 30, the earliest of them in 1964, and 21 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on January 30. Below are the pictures NASA published on January 30 in 1 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD2ENTRIES
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 2013 onward.
Pictures from this date
PUBLISHED1IMAGE
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for January 30, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.
Published on January 30
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.
2022
NASA Science
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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What happened on January 30
2013
The Korea Aerospace Research Institute launched Naro-1, South Korea's first carrier rocket and their first launch vehicle to achieve Earth orbit.
Korea Aerospace Research Institute ↗
Every launch on January 30
24 launches
ONLINE
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-101SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Electron | Bridging The Swarm (NeonSat-1A)RLSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpainSat NG ISpXSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-20 (S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson)SpXSUCCESS
- 2013Naro-1 | STSAT-2CKARISUCCESS
- 2009Tsiklon-3 | Koronas-FotonVKSSUCCESS
- 2007Zenit | NSS 8SLFAILURE
- 2001Delta II | GPS IIR-7USAFSUCCESS
- 1997Ariane 44L | GE 2 & Nahuel 1AASASUCCESS
- 1990Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-R 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1988Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-2 17CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Proton | Ekran-M 11LCCCPFAILURE
- 1982Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 24CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Molniya-M | Molniya-1K 49CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 23CCCPSUCCESS
- 1979Delta 2914 | SCATHAUSAFSUCCESS
- 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKM 27CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Molniya-M | US-K 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 20CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 7CCCPFAILURE
- 1969Thor Delta E1 | Isis 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1965Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-A1 5CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Atlas Agena B | Ranger 6USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Vostok | Elektron-1 & 2CCCPSUCCESS
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Cosmos — Carl Sagan
Still the best single argument for why any of this matters, and it leaves the arithmetic in. For a reader who wants the science, not just the awe.
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Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan
The case for leaving Earth, written by someone unsentimental about how hard that is. Suits readers who want the argument rather than the poster.
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Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
Hard-SF problem solving in The Martian's key — for anyone who liked the engineering more than the peril. The only novel on this list.
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Sources and licences
Event text and thumbnails come from Wikipedia and are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Images are drawn only from Wikimedia Commons, which does not accept non-free content — each thumbnail links to its file page, where its licence and author are recorded.
Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day; NASA imagery is generally not subject to copyright, but individual APOD entries are frequently the property of the photographer, and each caption says which applies.