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July 2 in spaceflight
20 launches flew on July 2, the earliest of them in 1964, and 17 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on July 2. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on July 2
2013
The International Astronomical Union announced that the fourth and fifth moons of Pluto to be discovered would be named Kerberos and Styx, respectively.
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Launches on July 2Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
20 launches
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- 2026Atlas V 551 | Amazon Leo (LA-08)ULASUCCESS
- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-46SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-25SpXSUCCESS
- 2022LauncherOne | Straight UpVOSUCCESS
- 2019Orion Test Booster | Ascent Abort-2NASASUCCESS
- 2017Long March 5 / YZ-2 | Shijian 18CASCFAILURE
- 2014Delta II 7320-10C | OCO-2ULASUCCESS
- 2013Proton-M/Blok DM-03 | Uragan-M No.48, 49 & 50KhSCFAILURE
- 2007Kosmos-3M | SAR-Lupe 2NPSUCCESS
- 1996Pegasus XL | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS)OSCSUCCESS
- 1992Atlas II | DSCS-3 B12USAFSUCCESS
- 1985Ariane 1 | GiottoASASUCCESS
- 1981Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 15LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Molniya-M | US-K 16CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz U | Energiya 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Tsiklon-2 | US-P 3CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Europa I | STV 2ELDOFAILURE
- 1965Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-A1 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Thor Delta C | Tiros 10USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Thor SLV-2A Agena D | P-698BK Group 2-D 2USAFSUCCESS
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Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's tour of the universe and how we came to understand it. It keeps the science in.
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Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's case for people leaving Earth one day, and an honest look at how hard that would be.
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
A science-fiction novel from the author of The Martian, built around solving one engineering problem after another.
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