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June 28 in spaceflight

23 orbital launches flew on June 28, the earliest of them in 1962, and 22 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 28. Below are the pictures NASA published on June 28 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

23MISSIONS

22 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1962, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1911 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 28, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on June 28

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.

© Dan Bartlett — 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.

© Emmanuel Astronomono — 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 28

  1. 1911

    The Nakhla meteorite (fragments pictured), the first meteorite to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, fell to Earth in Abu Hummus, Egypt.

    Nakhla meteorite ↗

  2. 1911

    The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.

    Nakhla meteorite ↗

  3. 1926

    Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

    Mercedes-Benz ↗

Every launch on June 28

23 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-40SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-7SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2025H-IIA 202 | GOSAT-GW (Ibuki GW)JAXASUCCESS
  4. 2025Electron | Symphony In The Stars (EchoStar Lyra-4)RLSUCCESS
  5. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-34SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2022Electron | CAPSTONERLSUCCESS
  7. 2017Ariane 5 ECA | Hellas Sat 3 (Inmarsat S EAN) & GSAT-17ASASUCCESS
  8. 2015Falcon 9 v1.1 | SpX CRS-7SpXFAILURE
  9. 2013Pegasus XL | Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)OSCSUCCESS
  10. 2007Dnepr | Genesis-2ISCKSUCCESS
  11. 2006Delta IV M+(4,2) | NROL-22USAFSUCCESS
  12. 2000Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 9NPSUCCESS
  13. 1995Soyuz-U-PVB | Yantar-4K2 74VKSSUCCESS
  14. 1991Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F 11CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1984Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1B 7CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1983Delta 3920/PAM | Galaxy 1USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 30CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1979Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 20CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1979Soyuz U | Progress 7CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1978Tsiklon-3 | EPN 03.0380 4CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1978Molniya-M | US-K 9CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1963Scout X-4 | GRSUSAFSUCCESS
  23. 1962Thor Agena D | KH-4 7USAFSUCCESS

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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.

    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.