Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 August


 * 1958 - A Thor-Able fails to launch a Pioneer spacecraft.
 * 1965 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
 * 1966 - A Delta E launches the Pioneer 7 spacecraft.
 * 1970 - A Molniya-M launches the Venera 7 probe.
 * 1973 - A Thor-Burner launches a DMSP satellite.
 * 1978 - A Proton-K fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1122 satellite.
 * 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress 17 spacecraft to resupply Salyut 7.
 * 1996 - An H-II launches the ADEOS satellite.
 * 1996 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz TM-24 mission.
 * 1999 - A Delta II launches a group of Globalstar satellites.
 * 2000 - An Ariane 4 launches the Brasilsat B4 and Nilesat 102 satellites.
 * 2000 - A Titan IV launches the Lacrosse-4 satellite.
 * 2009 - In the final launch from SLC-17A at Cape Canaveral, the last Delta II 7925 launches the last GPS IIR satellite, USA-206.
 * 2011 - A Dnepr-1 launches Sich-2 and 7 other satellites.
 * 2011 - A Proton-M/Briz-M fails to launch the Ekspress AM4 communication satellite, due to a malfunction of the Briz-M upper stage.