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February 2 in spaceflight

17 orbital launches flew on February 2, the earliest of them in 1966, and 16 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on February 2. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

17MISSIONS

16 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1966, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

2ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1797 onward.

Pictures from this date

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No Astronomy Picture of the Day is available for this date.

What happened on February 2

  1. 1797

    The siege of Mantua ends after eight months when Count Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser surrenders the fortress of Mantua to Napoleon Bonaparte. The fall of Mantua secures French control over Northern Italy and marks the beginning of the conclusion of the Italian campaign of 1796-1797, and sets the stage for the end of the War of the First Coalition.

    Siege of Mantua (1796–1797) ↗

  2. 2009

    Omid, Iran's first domestically made satellite, was launched from Semnan Space Center.

    Omid ↗

Every launch on February 2

17 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-32SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025H3-22 | Michibiki 6 (QZS-6)MHISUCCESS
  3. 2024Long March 2C | Geely Constellation Group 02CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-3SpXSUCCESS
  5. 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-87SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2021Soyuz 2.1b | Lotos-S1VKSSUCCESS
  7. 2021Starship SN9 | 10 km FlightSpXPARTIAL
  8. 2018Long March 2D | Zhangheng-1 (CSES)CASCSUCCESS
  9. 2015Safir | FajrISASUCCESS
  10. 2009Safir | OmidISASUCCESS
  11. 2007Long March 3A | Beidou Daohang Shiyan Wei. 4CASCSUCCESS
  12. 2003Soyuz U | Progress M-47RFSASUCCESS
  13. 1984Kosmos-3M | Parus 42CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1981Tsiklon-2 | IS-A 11CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1977Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 6CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1967Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 36USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1966Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 29USAFSUCCESS

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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.

    VIEW

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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.