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17 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1965 and the latest in 2025.
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January 23 in spaceflight
18 launches flew on January 23, the earliest of them in 1965, and 17 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on January 23. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on January 23
2003
The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.
NASA ↗2003
A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
Pioneer 10 ↗
Launches on January 23Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
18 launches
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- 2025Long March 3B/E | TJSW-14CASCSUCCESS
- 2025Long March 6A | SpaceSail Polar Group #4CASCSUCCESS
- 2024Kinetica 1 | Flight 3CASSUCCESS
- 2019New Shepard | NS-10BOSUCCESS
- 2009H-IIA 202 | GOSATJAXASUCCESS
- 2002Ariane 42L | Insat 3CASASUCCESS
- 1998Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-89USASUCCESS
- 1990Molniya-M | Molniya-3 53LCCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 13CCCPSUCCESS
- 1985Tsiklon-2 | US-P 20CCCPSUCCESS
- 1984N-2 | Yuri 2ANASDASUCCESS
- 1981Tsiklon-3 | Geo-IK 1CCCPFAILURE
- 1980Tsiklon-3 | Okean-E 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 35CCCPSUCCESS
- 1972Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | INTELSAT IV F4USAFSUCCESS
- 1970Thor Delta N6 | ITOS 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1969Voskhod | Zenit-4M 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | KH-7 15USAFSUCCESS
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Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's tour of the universe and how we came to understand it. It keeps the science in.
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Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
Sagan's case for people leaving Earth one day, and an honest look at how hard that would be.
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Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
A science-fiction novel from the author of The Martian, built around solving one engineering problem after another.
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