Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/24 January

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• 1962 - A Thor Able-Star fails to launch a collection of five satellites.
• 1968 - A Thorad-Agena launches a KH-4A spy satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-2I launches a DS-P1-Yu radar target satellite
• 1974 - A Voskhod rocket launches a Zenit-2M spy satellite and a Nauka scientific spacecraft.
• 1978 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 communication satellite.
• 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-2MKM spy satellite.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches a Yantar spy satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches a Progress spacecraft to resupply Salyut 6.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches a Tselina spy satellite
• 1985 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-51-C to deploy a Magnum spy satellite
• 1990 - A Mu-3S-II launches the Hiten and Hagoromo Lunar orbiters.
• 1990 - A Delta II 6925 launches a GPS satellite.
• 1992 - A Molniya-M launches an Oko missile defence spacecraft.
• 1993 - Soyuz TM-13 launches to Mir, with the two-man EO-13 crew aboard.
• 1994 - An Ariane 4 (44LP) fails to launch the Eutelsat II-F5 and Turksat-1A communication satellites, due to a third stage turbopump malfunction.
• 1995 - A Kosmos-3M launches a Tsikada navigation satellite
• 2001 - A Soyuz-U launches Progress M1-5, on a mission to deorbit the Mir space station.
• 2006 - An H-IIA launches the Daichi remote sensing spacecraft.