Launches
ON RECORD20MISSIONS
19 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1959 and the latest in 2025.
MARKED ON THIS DATE
2018 · 8 years ago today
InSight lands to listen
InSight set down on Elysium Planitia to record marsquakes with a seismometer placed on the ground by a robotic arm.
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November 26 in spaceflight
20 launches flew on November 26, the earliest of them in 1959, and 19 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 5 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 26. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
Recorded events
IN THE RECORD5ENTRIES
Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia for this date, oldest first, starting in 1944.
Pictures from this date
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What happened on November 26
1944
World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in New Cross, London, killing 168 people.
V-2 rocket ↗1965
France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
Astérix (satellite) ↗2011
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover on board.
NASA ↗
Launches on November 26Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
20 launches
ONLINE
- 2025Nuri | CAS500-3KARISUCCESS
- 2022Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-26SpXSUCCESS
- 2022PSLV-XL | EOS-6 (Oceansat-3) & rideshareISROSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 3B | ChinaSat 1DCASCSUCCESS
- 2019Ariane 5 ECA | TIBA-1 & Inmarsat-5 F5 (Global Xpress-5)ASASUCCESS
- 2015Long March 4C | Yaogan-29CASCSUCCESS
- 2011Atlas V 541 | MSL (Curiosity)ULASUCCESS
- 2010Ariane 5 ECA | Intelsat 17 & HYLAS 1ASASUCCESS
- 2008Soyuz U | Progress M-01MRFSASUCCESS
- 2001Soyuz-FG | Progress M1-7RFSASUCCESS
- 1990Delta II | GPS IIA-1USAFSUCCESS
- 1989Proton | Kvant-2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1988Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Proton | Luch #2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1982Proton-K/DM | Raduga 11CCCPSUCCESS
- 1976Tsiklon-2 | US-P 4CCCPSUCCESS
- 1975Long March 2 | FSW-0 1CASCSUCCESS
- 1965Diamant A | AsterixCNESSUCCESS
- 1965Kosmos 11K63 | DS-U2-M 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1959Atlas-Able | P-3USAFFAILURE
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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.