Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/28 February
Appearance
- 1959 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch the Discoverer 1 satellite.
- 1963 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch a CORONA satellite.
- 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches the OPS 3722 satellite.
- 1966 - A Delta E launches the ESSA-2 satellite.
- 1967 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos-144 satellite.
- 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-549 satellite.
- 1975 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Kosmos satellites.
- 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-991 satellite.
- 1981 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8A satellite.
- 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1539 satellite.
- 1989 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Meteor-2 satellite.
- 1990 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Okean satellite.
- 1990 - Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-36 launches with a classified payload, believed to be either a KH-12 or Misty spy satellite.
- 1990 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress M-3 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
- 1991 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
- 1998 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Intelsat 806 satellite.
- 1999 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
- 2005 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-52 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
- 2006 - A Proton-M fails to launch the Arabsat 4A satellite after an upper stage failure.
- 2009 - A Proton-K/DM-2 launches a Raduga-1 satellite.
- 2014 - An H-IIA launches the GPM Core Observatory and 7 cubesats.