Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/17 May

• 1966 - A Voskhod fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena fails to launch a target vehicle for Gemini 9.
• 1967 - An R-36 launches the Kosmos 160 satellite.
• 1968 - A Scout B launches the ESRO-2B satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 490 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 558 satellite.
• 1974 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 654 satellite.
• 1974 - A Delta 2914 launches the SMS-1 satellite.
• 1974 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Interkosmos-11 satellite.
• 1975 - A Diamant launches the D-5A and D-5B satellites.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 908 satellite.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1008 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1099 satellite.
• 1982 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos 1366 satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1462 satellite.
• 1984 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1553 satellite.
• 1985 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 1988 - An Ariane 2 launches the Intelsat 513 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2020 satellite.
• 1995 - An Ariane 4 launches the Intelsat 706 satellite.
• 1996 - A Pegasus-H launches the MSTI-3 satellite.
• 1998 - A Delta II launches the final five satellites in the original 66-satellite Iridium constellation.
• 2012 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2480 reconnaissance satellite.
• 2012 - An H-IIA launches GCOM-W1, KOMPSAT-3 and 2 other satellites.
• 2012 - A Proton-M launches the Nimiq 6 satellite.