Launches
ON RECORD22MISSIONS
21 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1962 and the latest in 2026.
MARKED ON THIS DATE
2011 · 15 years ago today
Juno departs for Jupiter
Juno launched on an Atlas V for a five-year cruise, taking a swing past Earth to pick up speed.
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August 5 in spaceflight
22 launches flew on August 5, the earliest of them in 1962, and 21 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on August 5. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1973.
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What happened on August 5
2011
NASA launched the Juno probe to Jupiter as part of the New Frontiers program.
Juno (spacecraft) ↗
Launches on August 5Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
22 launches
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- 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | BlueBird 11-13 (Block 2 #6-8)SpXSUCCESS
- 2026Smart Dragon 3 | OSE HS-01 & 02CHNRSUCCESS
- 2025Electron | The Harvest Goddess Thrives (iQPS Launch 4)RLSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 3B | Zhongxing 2E (Chinasat 2E)CASCSUCCESS
- 2019Proton-M/Briz-M | Blagovest No.14L (Kosmos 2539)KhSCSUCCESS
- 2016Long March 3B/E | Tiantong 1-01CASCSUCCESS
- 2014Falcon 9 v1.1 | Asiasat 8SpXSUCCESS
- 2011Atlas V 551 | JunoULASUCCESS
- 1997Soyuz-U | Soyuz TM-26RFSASUCCESS
- 1995Delta II | Mugunghwa 1USAFFAILURE
- 1994Molniya-M | US-K 75PRSCSUCCESS
- 1988Long March 2C | FSW-1 2CASCSUCCESS
- 1987Long March 2C | FSW-0 9CASCSUCCESS
- 1983N-2 | Sakura 2BNASDASUCCESS
- 1983Soyuz U | Resurs-F1 17F41 25LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Vostok 8A92M | Tselina-D 37CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 8CCCPSUCCESS
- 1978Titan 34B | Quasar 3USAFSUCCESS
- 1973Proton | Mars-6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 20CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Thor SLV-2A Agena D | KH-4A 9USAFSUCCESS
- 1962Atlas Agena B | Samos-E6 4USAFSUCCESS
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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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