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June 15 in spaceflight

28 launches flew on June 15, the earliest of them in 1963, and 26 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on June 15. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

ON RECORD

28MISSIONS

26 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1963 and the latest in 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

3ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in -763.

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What happened on June 15

  1. -763

    The Bur-Sagale eclipse was observed in Assyria, the earliest solar eclipse mentioned in historical sources that has been successfully identified.

    760s BC ↗

  2. -763

    Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

    Assyria ↗

  3. 1988

    The Ariane 4 rocket is launched on its maiden flight.

    Ariane 4 ↗

Launches on June 15Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

28 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-54SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2026Kinetica 1 | 8 x Jilin-1CASSUCCESS
  3. 2023Long March 2D | 41 x Jilin-1CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2021Minotaur I | NROL-111NGSSSUCCESS
  5. 2017Long March 4B | Huiyan (HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope))CASCSUCCESS
  6. 2016Falcon 9 Full Thrust | Eutelsat 117 West B & ABS-2ASpXSUCCESS
  7. 2011SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF12VGSUCCESS
  8. 2011Safir | Rasad 1ISASUCCESS
  9. 2010Soyuz FG | Soyuz TMA-19RFSASUCCESS
  10. 2010Dnepr 1 | Prisma-Mango, Prisma-Tango, Picard, BPA-1ISCKSUCCESS
  11. 2010Long March 2D | Shijian 12CASCSUCCESS
  12. 2007Atlas V 401 | NROL-30 & NOSS-3 (USA-194)ULASUCCESS
  13. 2007Dnepr | TerraSAR-XISCKSUCCESS
  14. 2006Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-DKRFSASUCCESS
  15. 2002Zenit | Galaxy 3CSLSUCCESS
  16. 1998Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 119 to 124RVSN RFSUCCESS
  17. 1996Ariane 44P | INTELSAT 709ASASUCCESS
  18. 1988Ariane 44LP | Meteosat 3ASASUCCESS
  19. 1984Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 26LCCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1979Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 8CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1978Soyuz-U | Soyuz 29CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1976Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 113-120CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1973Soyuz | Kosmos 573CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1971Titan IIID | KH-9 1USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1969Voskhod | Zenit-4 59CCCPSUCCESS
  26. 1968Kosmos 11K65 | Strela-2 4CCCPFAILURE
  27. 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 28CCCPSUCCESS
  28. 1963Thor Agena D | Poppy 4A & 4BUSAFFAILURE

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Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Many of them belong to the photographer or a partner agency, so we only show the ones credited to NASA alone.

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