Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/30 January
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- 1964 - A Vostok-K 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-2M launches a Tselina spy satellite.
- 1981 - A 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.
- 2009 - The Tsyklon-3 makes its final flight, launching the Koronas-Foton satellite.
- 2013 - South Korea, with Russian assistance, successfully made its first orbital launch when the last Naro-1 rocket launches the STSAT-2C satellite into orbit.