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July 1 in spaceflight

23 orbital launches flew on July 1, the earliest of them in 1964, and 22 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 7 spaceflight and astronomy events on July 1. Below are the pictures NASA published on July 1 in 1 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

23MISSIONS

22 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

7ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1690 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

1IMAGE

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for July 1, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on July 1

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

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.

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What happened on July 1

  1. 1690

    War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus.

    Nine Years' War ↗

  2. 1770

    Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).

    Lexell's Comet ↗

  3. 1819

    Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.

    Johann Georg Tralles ↗

  4. 1924

    The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland is inaugurated by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out.

    National War Memorial (Newfoundland) ↗

  6. 1997

    Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew.

    Space Shuttle program ↗

  7. 2004

    Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.

    Saturn ↗

Every launch on July 1

23 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Long March 4B | Haiyang 2ECASCSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | MTG-S1SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2024H3-22 | Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4)MHISUCCESS
  4. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | EuclidSpXSUCCESS
  5. 2022Atlas V 541 | USSF-12ULASUCCESS
  6. 2021Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | OneWeb 8ASASUCCESS
  7. 2013PSLV XL | IRNSS-1AISROSUCCESS
  8. 2009Ariane 5 ECA | TerreStar-1ASASUCCESS
  9. 1998Molniya-M | Molniya-3 61LPRSCSUCCESS
  10. 1997Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-94USASUCCESS
  11. 1994Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-19RFSASUCCESS
  12. 1993Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-17RFSASUCCESS
  13. 1992Kosmos-3M | Parus 77NPSUCCESS
  14. 1991Proton | Gorizont 23CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1987Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 61CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1983Molniya-M | Prognoz-9CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1981Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 41CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1980Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 23CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1977Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 15CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1976Molniya-M | Molniya-2CCCPFAILURE
  21. 1967Titan IIIC | IDCSP 16 to 19USAFSUCCESS
  22. 1966Thor Delta E1 | Explorer 33USAFSUCCESS
  23. 1964Voskhod | Zenit-4 3CCCPSUCCESS

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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.