Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/2 August

• 1962 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 513 satellite.
• 1984 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1586 satellite.
• 1984 - An N-II rocket launches the GMS-3 satellite.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1671 satellite.
• 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1768 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2035 satellite.
• 1990 - A Delta II launches the GPS II-8 satellite.
• 1991 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-48 to deploy the TDRS-5 satellite.
• 1993 - A Titan IV fails to launch a triad of NOSS satellites.
• 1994 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2285 satellite.
• 1995 - A Molniya-M launches the Interbol-1 satellite.
• 1998 - A Pegasus-XL launches eight Orbcomm satellites.
• 2005 - A Long March 2C launches the FSW-21 satellite.
• 2007 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-61 spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station.
• 2012 - An Ariane 5 ECA launches the Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2 satellites.
• 2017 - An Vega launches the VENµS and OPTSAT-3000 satellites.