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June 26 in spaceflight

23 launches flew on June 26, the earliest of them in 1958, and 19 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

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23MISSIONS

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

Recorded events

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

23 launches

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  1. 2026Electron | Ten Owl Of Ten (StriX Launch 10)RLSUCCESS
  2. 2025Electron | Get The Hawk Outta Here (4x HawkEye 360)RLSUCCESS
  3. 2022Black Brant IX | XQCELASUCCESS
  4. 2015Long March 4B | Gaofen 8CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2012SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF17VGSUCCESS
  6. 2010Ariane 5 ECA | ArabSat-5A & COMS-1 (Chollian)ASASUCCESS
  7. 2008Proton | US-KMO 7KhSCSUCCESS
  8. 2003Pegasus XL | OrbView-3OSCSUCCESS
  9. 2002Soyuz U | Progress M-46RFSASUCCESS
  10. 1993Delta II | GPS IIA-12USAFSUCCESS
  11. 1985Soyuz U | Zenit-8 17CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1984Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 8CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1980Soyuz U | Zenit-6U 21CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1976Titan IIIC | DSP 6USAFSUCCESS
  15. 1974Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 15CCCPSUCCESS
  16. 1973Titan 24B | KH-8 39USAFFAILURE
  17. 1972Soyuz | Kosmos 496CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1971N1 | Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1CCCPFAILURE
  19. 1970Voskhod | Zenit-2M 9CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1970Molniya-M | Molniya-1 14CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1968Voskhod | Zenit-4 43CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1967Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O-GVMCCCPFAILURE
  23. 1958Vanguard | VanguardUSNFAILURE

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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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