Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/2 July

• 1964 - A Thor-Agena launches the OPS-3395 satellite.
• 1965 - A Delta C launches the Tiros 10 satellite.
• 1965 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 70 satellite.
• 1969 - A Europa rocket fails during a test flight.
• 1976 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 838 satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1026 satellite.
• 1980 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1191 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1280 satellite.
• 1985 - An Ariane 1 launches the Giotto probe.
• 1990 - Giotto flies by Earth, the first Earth encounter by a spacecraft returning from deep space.
• 1992 - An Atlas II launches the DSCS IIIB-12 satellite.
• 1996 - A Pegasus-XL launches the TOMS-EP satellite.
• 2007 - A Kosmos-3M launches the SAR-Lupe 2 satellite.
• 2013 - A Proton-M/Blok-DM fails to launch 3 GLONASS-M navigation satellites.