1998 – Kwangmyŏngsŏng (meaning Bright Star or Brilliant Star in Korean) is a class of experimental satellite developed by North Korea and named after a Chinese-language poem by Kim Il-sung. It apparently
launched at 3:07 UTC from a launch site in Musudan-ri, Hwadae-gun, North Hamgyong Province by a Paektusan-1 satellite launch vehicle (SLV). This
launch would have made North Korea the ninth space faring nation, after the Soviet Union, the United States, France, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, India and Israel. However, the US Space Command, NORAD and
amateur radio satellite observers never reported any signals. Although the North Koreans claimed that this was a successful orbital launch there is no evidence that anything actually reached orbit.
1989 – Voyager 2 captures an image of Neptune as it became the first spacecraft to flyby the planet. This picture was produced from multiple images taken by the spacecraft.
