Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 October

• 1962 - A Vostok-2 launches the Kosmos 10 satellite.
• 1963 - An Atlas-Agena launches two Vela satellites.
• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1969 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 302 satellite.
• 1971 - A Thorad-Agena launches the P71-2 satellite.
• 1972 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1975 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 776 satellite.
• 1976 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 860 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1044 satellite.
• 1978 - A Proton-K fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1981 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2048 satellite.
• 1991 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress M-10 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 2002 - A Proton-K/DM-5 launches the Integral satellite.
• 2003 - A PSLV launches the IRS P6 satellite.
• 2007 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIR-17 satellite.