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14 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1961 and the latest in 2025.
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November 5 in spaceflight
17 launches flew on November 5, the earliest of them in 1961, and 14 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 3 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 5. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
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Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 2007.
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What happened on November 5
2013
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
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Launches on November 5Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
17 launches
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- 2025Electron | The Nation God Navigates (iQPS Launch 5)RLSUCCESS
- 2024Electron | Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes (Protosat-1)RLSUCCESS
- 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31SpXSUCCESS
- 2022Long March 3B | ChinaSat 19CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 6 | SDGSAT-1CASCSUCCESS
- 2020Falcon 9 Block 5 | GPS III SV04SpXSUCCESS
- 2017Long March 3B / YZ-1 | Beidou-3 M1 & M2CASCSUCCESS
- 2013PSLV XL | Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)ISROSUCCESS
- 2008Proton-M Briz-M | Astra 1MKhSCSUCCESS
- 2008Long March 2D | Shiyan Weixing 3CASCSUCCESS
- 1993Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1M 4RFSASUCCESS
- 1974Long March 2 | FSW-0 0CASCFAILURE
- 1971Europa II | STV 4ELDOFAILURE
- 1967Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | ATS 3USAFSUCCESS
- 1964Atlas Agena D | Mariner 3USAFSUCCESS
- 1962Thor DM-21 Agena-B | KH-4 14USAFSUCCESS
- 1961Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Discoverer 34USAFPARTIAL
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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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