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21 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1959 and the latest in 2025.
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November 4 in spaceflight
25 launches flew on November 4, the earliest of them in 1959, and 21 of them succeeded. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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Launches on November 4Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2025Ariane 62 | Sentinel-1DASASUCCESS
- 2024Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 1 & 2RFSASUCCESS
- 2024H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3)MHISUCCESS
- 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-26SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Electron | Catch Me If You Can (MATS)RLSUCCESS
- 2019Long March 3B/E | Beidou-3 IGSO-3CASCSUCCESS
- 2015SPARK | ORS-4SNLFAILURE
- 2011Proton-M Briz-M | 3 x Glonass-M (Kosmos 2475, Kosmos 2476, Kosmos 2477)KhSCSUCCESS
- 2010Long March 4C | Feng Yun-3BCASCSUCCESS
- 2006Delta IV M | DMSP F-17USAFSUCCESS
- 1998Proton-K/DM-2M | PAS 8KhSCSUCCESS
- 1996Pegasus XL | High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE) & Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-B (SAC-B)OSCFAILURE
- 1995Delta II | RadarsatUSAFSUCCESS
- 1994Zenit-2 | Resurs-O1RFSASUCCESS
- 1986Soyuz U | Zenit-8 40CCCPSUCCESS
- 1981Proton-K/D-1 | Venera-14CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Tsiklon-2 | US-P 9CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 52CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Kosmos-3M | Parus 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Soyuz 11A511M | Zenit-4MT 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1969Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 6CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-V 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Thor SLV-2A Agena D | P-698BK Group 3-D 1USAFSUCCESS
- 1962Molniya 8K78 | Mars 2aCCCPFAILURE
- 1959Little Joe | LJ-1ANASAPARTIAL
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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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