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September 7 in spaceflight

15 launches flew on September 7, the earliest of them in 1967, and 15 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 1 spaceflight and astronomy event on September 7. Pick another date to see what happened on it.

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Launches

ON RECORD

15MISSIONS

15 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1967 and the latest in 2022.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1995.

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What happened on September 7

Launches on September 7Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.

15 launches

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  1. 2022Ariane 5 ECA+ | Eutelsat Konnect VHTSASASUCCESS
  2. 2021Long March 4C | Gaofen-5-02CASCSUCCESS
  3. 2020Long March 4B | Gaofen-11-02CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2018Long March 2C | Haiyang 1CCASCSUCCESS
  5. 2017Falcon 9 Block 4 | OTV-5 (X-37B)SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2014Falcon 9 v1.1 | AsiaSat 6SpXSUCCESS
  7. 2013Minotaur V | LADEEOSCSUCCESS
  8. 1995Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-69LMSOSUCCESS
  9. 1993Soyuz-U | Orlets-1 5RFSASUCCESS
  10. 1990Soyuz-U-PVB | Resurs-F 9CCCPSUCCESS
  11. 1987Tsiklon-3 | Strela-3 25 to 30CCCPSUCCESS
  12. 1984Molniya-M | US-K 37CCCPSUCCESS
  13. 1983Soyuz U | Yantar-4K1 11CCCPSUCCESS
  14. 1971Kosmos-3M | Tselina-O 11CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1967Thor Delta G | Biosat 2USAFSUCCESS

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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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