Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/28 February

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• 1959 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch the Discoverer 1 satellite.
• 1963 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch a CORONA satellite.
• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches the OPS 3722 satellite.
• 1966 - A Delta-E launches the ESSA-2 satellite.
• 1967 - A Vostok-M launches the Kosmos-144 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-549 satellite.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Kosmos satellites.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-991 satellite.
• 1981 - A Titan 24B launches a KH-8A satellite.
• 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1539 satellite.
• 1989 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Meteor-2 satellite.
• 1990 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Okean satellite.
• 1990 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with a classified payload, believed to be either a KH-12 or Misty spy satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress M-3 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1991 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
• 1998 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Intelsat 806 satellite.
• 1999 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
• 2005 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-52 satellite.
• 2006 - A Proton-M fails to launch the Arabsat 4A satellite after an upper stage failure.