Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 May

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• 1966 - A Voskhod rocket fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena fails to launch a target vehicle for Gemini 9.
• 1967 - A R-36 launches the Kosmos-160 satellite.
• 1968 - A Scout-B launches the ESRO-2B satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-490 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-558 satellite.
• 1974 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos-654 satellite.
• 1974 - A Delta 2914 launches the SMS-1 satellite.
• 1974 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Interkosmos-11 satellite.
• 1975 - A Diamant launches the D-5A and D-5B satellites.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-908 satellite.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1008 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1099 satellite.
• 1982 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos-1366 satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1462 satellite.
• 1984 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1553 satellite.
• 1985 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 1988 - An Ariane 2 launches the Intelsat 513 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-2020 satellite.
• 1995 - An Ariane 4 launches the Intelsat 706 satellite.
• 1996 - A Pegasus-H launches the MSTI-3 satellite.
• 1998 - A Delta II launches five Iridium satellites.