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June 22 in spaceflight

17 orbital launches flew on June 22, the earliest of them in 1959, and 15 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 5 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 22. Below are the pictures NASA published on June 22 in 5 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

17MISSIONS

15 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1959, the most recent 2024.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

5ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1633 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

5IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 22, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on June 22

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

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.

© Long Xin — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Alessandro Cipolat Bares — 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.

NASA · public domain

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 June 22

  1. 1633

    The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

    Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ↗

  4. 1942

    World War II: Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the Axis capture of Tobruk.

    Erwin Rommel ↗

  5. 1978

    Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.

    Charon (moon) ↗

Every launch on June 22

17 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2024Long March 2C | Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM)CASCSUCCESS
  2. 2023Delta IV Heavy | NROL-68ULASUCCESS
  3. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 5-7SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2022Ariane 5 ECA+ | Measat-3d & GSAT 24ASASUCCESS
  5. 2022Kuaizhou 1A | Tianxing-1EPSUCCESS
  6. 2016PSLV XL | Cartosat-2C & 19 small satellitesISROSUCCESS
  7. 2010Shavit-2 | Ofek-9IAISUCCESS
  8. 1995Pegasus XL | Space Test Experiments Platform-3 (STEP-3)OSCFAILURE
  9. 1988Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 39CCCPSUCCESS
  10. 1984Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 48LCCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1984Proton-K/DM | Raduga 15CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1983Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 42CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-4MKT 10CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1977Soyuz U | Zenit-4MK 80CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1976Proton | Salyut-5CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1960Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit 2AUSAFSUCCESS
  17. 1959Vanguard | VanguardUSNFAILURE

FIELD KIT / LIBRARY

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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.