Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/28 January

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• 1966 - A Scout-A launches a Transit navigation satellite.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-P1-Yu radar target satellite.
• 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela communication satellites.
• 1977 - A Delta 2914 launches the NATO 3B communication satellite.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit spy satellite.
• 1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after launch on mission STS-51-L, seven astronauts.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar-4K1 spy satellite.
• 1994 - A Soyuz-U launches a Progress spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 2004 - Mars Express completes its orbital correction maneuvers in areocentric orbit.
• 2008 - A Proton-M launches the Ekspress AM-33 communication satellite.