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February 10 in spaceflight

17 orbital launches flew on February 10, the earliest of them in 1966, and 15 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on February 10. Below are the pictures NASA published on February 10 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

17MISSIONS

15 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1966, the most recent 2024.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

4ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1964 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for February 10, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on February 10

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.

NASA Science

2026

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.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

2025

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.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

2024

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.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

2023

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.

© Stefan Bemmerl — used with the credit NASA publishes

NASA Science

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.

© Dawn Lowry — used with the credit NASA publishes

NASA Science

2021

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.

NASA · public domain

What happened on February 10

  1. 1964

    Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.

    Melbourne–Voyager collision ↗

  2. 2009

    The satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 destroyed each other in the first accidental hypervelocity collision between two intact satellites in low Earth orbit.

    Iridium 33 ↗

  4. 2016

    South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.

    South Korea ↗

Every launch on February 10

17 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-13SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2023SSLV | EOS-7 & rideshare (Demo 2)ISROSUCCESS
  3. 2022Astra Rocket 3 | ELaNa 41ASFAILURE
  4. 2022Soyuz STB/Fregat | OneWeb 13ASASUCCESS
  5. 2020Atlas V 411 | Solar OrbiterULASUCCESS
  6. 2016Delta IV M+(5,2) | NROL-45 (Topaz-4) (USA-267)ULASUCCESS
  7. 2009Soyuz U | Progress M-66RFSASUCCESS
  8. 2000M-V | ASTRO EISASFAILURE
  9. 1998Taurus 2210 | GFOOSCSUCCESS
  10. 1997Soyuz-U | Soyuz TM-25RFSASUCCESS
  11. 1989Soyuz U | Zenit-8 76CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1989Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 37 to 42CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1989Soyuz-U2 | Progress 40CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1983Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 20LCCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1970Voskhod | Zenit-4 69CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1966Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 35CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1966Scout X-4A | Reentry 4BNASASUCCESS

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  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

  • LISTING

    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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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.