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March 5 in spaceflight

24 launches flew on March 5, the earliest of them in 1958, and 20 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on March 5. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

ON RECORD

24MISSIONS

20 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1958 and the latest in 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

4ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1616.

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What happened on March 5

  1. 1616

    Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.

    Nicolaus Copernicus ↗

  2. 1978

    The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

    Landsat 3 ↗

  3. 1979

    Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.

    Venera 11 ↗

Launches on March 5Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

24 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Electron | Insight At Speed Is A Friend Indeed (BlackSky Gen-3 4)RLSUCCESS
  2. 2026KAIROS | Flight 3Space OneFAILURE
  3. 2022Long March 2C | Yinhe-1 (x6)CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2011Atlas V 501 | OTV-2 (X-37B) (USA-226)ULASUCCESS
  5. 2010Long March 4C | Yaogan-9CASCSUCCESS
  6. 1999Pegasus XL | Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)OSCSUCCESS
  7. 1985Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-D 48CCCPSUCCESS
  8. 1984Ariane 1 | Intelsat 508ASASUCCESS
  9. 1982Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 54CCCPSUCCESS
  10. 1982Atlas SLV-3D Centaur | Intelsat 504USAFSUCCESS
  11. 1981Tsiklon-2 | US-A 17CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1981Soyuz U | Yantar-2K 16CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1978Delta 2910 | Landsat 3USAFSUCCESS
  14. 1974Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 69CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1974Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 16 (30L)CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1971Kosmos 11K63 | Zenit-2M 17CCCPFAILURE
  17. 1971Voskhod | DS-P1-Yu 40CCCPFAILURE
  18. 1969Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 4CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1969Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 19CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1968Scout B | Explorer 37NASASUCCESS
  21. 1968Voskhod | Zenit-2 59CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1968Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 3CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1967Atlas SLV-3 | PRIME 2USAFSUCCESS
  24. 1958Juno-I | Explorer 2ABMAFAILURE

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    Cosmos, by Carl Sagan

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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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Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day. Many of them belong to the photographer or a partner agency, so we only show the ones credited to NASA alone.

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