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July 28 in spaceflight

24 orbital launches flew on July 28, the earliest of them in 1960, and 23 reached orbit. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

24MISSIONS

23 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1960, the most recent 2024.

Recorded events

NONE FOUND

0ENTRIES

Wikipedia records no spaceflight or astronomy event on this date.

Pictures from this date

NONE

0IMAGES

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

Every launch on July 28

24 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-4SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-4SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-7SpXSUCCESS
  4. 2017Soyuz-FG | Soyuz MS-05RFSASUCCESS
  5. 2016Atlas V 421 | NROL-61ULASUCCESS
  6. 2014Delta IV M+(4,2) | AFSPC-4ULASUCCESS
  7. 2012Rokot / Briz-KM | Gonets M-13, Gonets M-15, Strela-3M (Kosmos-2481) & Yubileyniy 2 (MiR)VKOSUCCESS
  8. 2006Rokot / Briz-KM | Arirang-2ELSSUCCESS
  9. 2000Zenit | PAS 9SLSUCCESS
  10. 1998Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 20RFSASUCCESS
  11. 1997Atlas IIAS | Superbird 3LMTSUCCESS
  12. 1988Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 24CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1986Tsiklon-3 | Okean-O1 1CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1983Delta 3920/PAM | Telstar 301USAFSUCCESS
  15. 1973Saturn IB | Skylab 3NASASUCCESS
  16. 1972Voskhod | Zenit-2M 30CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1971Molniya-M | Molniya-1 18CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1970R-36O 8K69 | R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 22CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1967Thor SLV-2A Agena D | OGO 4USAFSUCCESS
  20. 1966Voskhod | Zenit-4 20CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1964Atlas Agena B | Ranger 7USAFSUCCESS
  22. 1962Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 4CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1962Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 9USAFSUCCESS
  24. 1960Vostok 8K72 | Korabl-Sputnik (2)CCCPFAILURE

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    Cosmos — Carl Sagan

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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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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.