Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/26 April
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- 1962 - A Scout X-2 fails to launch the SR-4B satellite.
- 1962 - A Vostok-K launches the Kosmos-4 satellite.
- 1962 - A Delta rocket launches the United Kingdom's first satellite, Ariel 1.
- 1962 - An Atlas-Agena launches the FTV 2401 satellite.
- 1963 - A Scout X-2 fails to launch the OPS 1298 satellite.
- 1963 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch a CORONA satellite.
- 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-116 satellite.
- 1967 - A Scout-B launches the San Marco 2 satellite.
- 1967 - A Titan IIIB fails to launch a KH-8 satellite.
- 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-219 satellite.
- 1974 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
- 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-905 satellite.
- 1978 - A Scout D-1 launches the HCMM satellite.
- 1980 - An Atlas-F launches the GPS-I-6 satellite.
- 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1457 satellite.
- 1985 - A Molniya-M launches a Prognoz satellite.
- 1988 - A Scout G-1 launches the SOOS 3 satellite.
- 1988 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos-1940 satellite.
- 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches a Foton spacecraft.
- 1990 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
- 1993 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-55, a Spacelab research mission.
- 1994 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-2279 satellite.
- 2003 - A Soyuz-FG launches the manned Soyuz TMA-2 mission to the ISS.
- 2004 - A Proton-K launches the Ekspress AM-11 satellite.
- 2005 - A Zenit-3SL launches the Spaceway 1 satellite.
- 2006 - The first Long March 4C launches the Yaogan 1 satellite.
- 2008 - A Soyuz-FG/Fregat launches GIOVE-B.
