Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 August

• 1965 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 77 satellite.
• 1965 - An Atlas-Agena launches an AFP-206 satellite.
• 1971 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 936 spacecraft.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1119 satellite.
• 1981 - A Delta 3913 launches the DE-1 and 2 satellites.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1398 satellite.
• 1983 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1486 satellite.
• 1985 - A Scout G-1 launches the SOOS-1 spacecraft.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 31 spacecraft to resupply the Mir Space Station.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2089 satellite.
• 1994 - A Pegasus rocket launches the APEX satellite.
• 1994 - An Atlas IIA launches the DBS-2 satellite.
• 1995 - An Ariane 4 launches the Panamsat-4 satellite.
• 2004 - A Delta IIH launches the MESSENGER probe.
• 2008 - A Falcon 1 fails to launch the Trailblazer, PREsat and NanoSail-D satellites.
• 2013 - A H-IIB launches the HTV-4 logistics spacecraft to the International Space Station.