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March 26 in spaceflight

22 launches flew on March 26, the earliest of them in 1958, and 20 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

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22MISSIONS

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

Recorded events

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Launches on March 26Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

22 launches

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  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-17SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-7SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2025Long March 3B/E | Tianlian 2-04CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2025Electron | Finding Hot Wildfires Near You (OroraTech OTC-P1)RLSUCCESS
  5. 2024Long March 6A | Yunhai 3-02CASCSUCCESS
  6. 2023LVM-3 | OneWeb 18ISROSUCCESS
  7. 2020Atlas V 551 | AEHF-6ULASUCCESS
  8. 2015H-IIA 202 | IGS Optical 5MHISUCCESS
  9. 2013Proton-M Briz-M | Satmex-8ILSSUCCESS
  10. 2009Soyuz-FG | Soyuz TMA-14RFSASUCCESS
  11. 1993Zenit-2 | Tselina-2 13RFSASUCCESS
  12. 1991Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 58CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1990Delta 6925 | GPS-2 7USAFSUCCESS
  14. 1987Atlas G Centaur | FLTSATCOM F6USAFFAILURE
  15. 1986Soyuz U | Zenit-8 29CCCPFAILURE
  16. 1976Delta 3914 | Satcom 2USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1976Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 57CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1975Voskhod | Zenit-2M 55CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1974Proton-K/DM | Raduga-GVMCCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1969Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-1 1 (12L)CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1966Scout A | Transit-O 8USAFSUCCESS
  22. 1958Juno-I | Explorer 3ABMASUCCESS

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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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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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