Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/15 August

• 1959 - A Juno II fails to launch the Beacon 2 satellite.
• 1980 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 1206 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches a Resurs-F satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress M-4 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1991 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress M-14 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1995 - An Athena-1 fails to launch the Gemstar satellite.
• 2011 - A Long March 4B launches the Haiyang-2A satellite.