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26 of them succeeded. The earliest was in 1964 and the latest in 2025.
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December 10 in spaceflight
26 launches flew on December 10, the earliest of them in 1964, and 26 of them succeeded. Wikipedia lists 2 spaceflight and astronomy events on December 10. Pick another date to see what happened on it.
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What happened on December 10
1684
Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.
Edmond Halley ↗1684
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
Isaac Newton ↗
Launches on December 10Archive read 2026-11-05. Anything after that isn't listed here.
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- 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-11SpXSUCCESS
- 2025Kinetica 1 | 9 satellitesCASSUCCESS
- 2023Long March 2D | Yaogan 39 Group 05CASCSUCCESS
- 2021Long March 4B | Shijian 6 Group 05CASCSUCCESS
- 2017Long March 3B/E | Alcomsat-1CASCSUCCESS
- 2016Long March 3B | Fengyun-4ACASCSUCCESS
- 2014Long March 4C | Yaogan 25A, Yaogan 25B, Yaogan 25CCASCSUCCESS
- 2008Proton-M | Ciel 2KhSCSUCCESS
- 2007Atlas V 401 | NROL-24 (USA-198)ULASUCCESS
- 2006Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-116USASUCCESS
- 2003Proton-K/Briz-M | Uragan 83, 84 & Uragan-M 2KhSCSUCCESS
- 2001Zenit-2 | Meteor-3M No. 1RFSASUCCESS
- 1999Ariane 5 G | XMM-NewtonESASUCCESS
- 1998Kosmos-3M | Nadezhda 8NPSUCCESS
- 1990Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 48CCCPSUCCESS
- 1988Proton | Ekran-M 2CCCPSUCCESS
- 1987Proton | Raduga 21CCCPSUCCESS
- 1986Tsiklon-3 | Tselina-R 1CCCPSUCCESS
- 1980Kosmos-3M | Tsikada 7CCCPSUCCESS
- 1977Soyuz-U | Soyuz 26CCCPSUCCESS
- 1974Titan IIIE | Helios-ALMTSUCCESS
- 1971Voskhod | Zenit-4M 28CCCPSUCCESS
- 1970Voskhod | Zenit-2M 15CCCPSUCCESS
- 1968Voskhod | Zenit-2 69CCCPSUCCESS
- 1965Vostok 8A92 | Zenit-2 32CCCPSUCCESS
- 1964Titan IIIA | Transtage 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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