Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/22 February

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• 1961 - A Thor-Ablestar launches the Transit 3B satellite.
• 1965 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-57 satellite.
• 1966 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-110 satellite.
• 1967 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1978 - An Atlas-F launches a GPS satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1078 satellite.
• 1980 - A N rocket launches the Ayame 2 satellite.
• 1986 - An Ariane 1 launches the SPOT-1 and Viking satellites.
• 1989 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-2004 satellite.
• 1990 - An Ariane 4 fails to launch the Superbird B and BS 2X satellites.
• 1996 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on the 75th Shuttle mission, STS-75, with the TSS-1R tether experiment.