Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/11 February

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• 1965 - A Titan IIIA launches the LES 1 satellite.
• 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-108 satellite.
• 1970 - A Lambda-4S conducts Japan's first satellite launch, orbiting the Ōsumi satellite.
• 1970 - A Thor-Burner launches the DAPP 1524 satellite.
• 1974 - A Titan IIIE fails to launch on a mission to test the Centaur upper stage.
• 1976 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-802 satellite.
• 1977 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya satellite.
• 1980 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Kosmos satellites.
• 1981 - An N-II rocket launches the Kiku-3 satellite.
• 1982 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos-1337 satellite.
• 1986 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos-1732 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the manned Soyuz TM-9 mission.
• 1992 - An Atlas II launches a DSCS satellite.
• 1992 - An H-1 launches the Fuyo satellite.
• 1997 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-82, to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 2000 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-99, with the SRTM mapping payload.
• 2002 - A Delta II launches several Iridium satellites.
• 2008 - A Proton-M launches the Thor 5 communication satellite.