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- 28 June - A Dnepr rocket, launched from Dombarovskiy (in Orenburg Oblast, Russia), carried the Bigelow Aerospace Genesis II inflatable module into low earth orbit.
- 8 June - The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 on STS-117 to install solar arrays aboard the ISS.
- 8 June - A Delta II (7420-10), launched by United Launch Alliance from Vandenberg AFB, took the COSMO-SkyMed-1 Earth observation satellite to low Earth orbit for the Italian government.
- May 30 - A Soyuz FG with a Fregat upper stage, launched by Starsem from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carried four Globalstar satellites into Low Earth orbit.