Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/30 January

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• 1964 - A Vostok rocket launches two Elektron scientific satellites.
• 1964 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Ranger 6 Lunar probe.
• 1965 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-A1 technology development satellite.
• 1969 - A Delta-E launches the Isis 1 scientific satellite.
• 1974 - A Voskhod rocket launches a Zenit-4MK spy satellite.
• 1975 - A Molniya-M launches an Oko missile defence satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-4MKM spy satellite.
• 1979 - A Delta 2914 launches the SCATHA technology development satellite.
• 1980 - A Vostok rocket launches a Tselina spy satellite.
• 1981 - An Molniya-M launches a Molniya communication satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar spy satellite.
• 1987 - A Proton-K/DM-2 fails to launch an Ekran missile defence satellite, due to the upper stage failing to ignite.
• 1988 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor weather satellite.
• 1990 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Tselina spy satellite.
• 1992 - Space Shuttle Discovery lands, completing mission STS-42.
• 1997 - An Ariane 4 (44L) launches two communication satellites; GE-2 and Nahuel-1A.
• 2001 - A Delta II launches a GPS satellite.
• 2002 - Mars Odyssey completes its orbital corrections in areocentric orbit.
• 2007 - A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL fails to launch the NSS-8 communication satellite, exploding on the launch platform due to debris in the first stage engine's turbopump.