Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/16 September

• 1966 - A Thor-Burner launches the DAPP-1416 satellite.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches an AFP-206 satellite.
• 1966 - A Vostok-2 fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1967 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 177 satellite.
• 1968 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 241 satellite.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 362 satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 519 satellite.
• 1975 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 760 satellite.
• 1977 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 952 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 953 satellite.
• 1978 - A Mu-3H launches the Jikiken satellite.
• 1982 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1408 satellite.
• 1982 - A Proton-K launches the Ekran satellite.
• 1986 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 1987 - An Ariane 3 launches the Aussat K3 and ECS-4 satellite.
• 1987 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 1987 - A Scout G-1 launches the SOOS-2 satellite.
• 1987 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 1988 - An H-I launches the CS-3B satellite.
• 1993 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 2263 satellite.
• 1996 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on Shuttle-Mir mission STS-79.
• 1998 - An Ariane 4 launches the Panamsat-7 satellite.
• 2003 - A Kaituozhe-1 fails to launch an unknown satellite.