Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/28 August

• 1958 - A Pilot fails to launch a scientific satellite.
• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches the Nimbus 1 satellite.
• 1964 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 44 satellite.
• 1968 - A Soyuz launches the Kosmos 238 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 582 satellite.
• 1976 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 852 satellite.
• 1979 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1124 satellite.
• 1979 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1125 satellite.
• 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1302 satellite.
• 1984 - A Titan 34B launches the USA-4 satellite.
• 1985 - A Titan 34D fails to launch a KH-11 satellite.
• 1986 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1774 satellite.
• 1987 - A Zenit-2 launches the Kosmos 1873 satellite.
• 1989 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 2037 satellite.
• 1990 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2097 satellite.
• 1990 - An H-I launches the BS-3A satellite.
• 1990 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2098 satellite.
• 1994 - An H-II launches the ETS-6 satellite.
• 1997 - A Proton-K launches the PanAmSat-5 satellite.
• 2000 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga-1 satellite.
• 2002 - An Ariane 5 launches the Atlantic Bird 1 and MSG-1 satellites.
• 2013 - A Delta IV Heavy launches the USA-245 reconnaissance satellite.