Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 April

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• 1963 - A Delta-B launches the Explorer 17 spacecraft.
• 1965 - An Atlas-Agena launches the SNAPSHOT spacecraft.
• 1968 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-210 satellite.
• 1970 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-329 satellite.
• 1972 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-483 satellite.
• 1973 - A Proton-K launches the Salyut 2 space station.
• 1974 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-638 (Soyuz 7K-TM) spacecraft.
• 1980 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1171 satellite.
• 1984 - A Soyuz-U launches the manned Soyuz T-11 mission.
• 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1644 satellite.
• 1990 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1990 - A Shavit launches the Ofeq-2 satellite.
• 1995 - A Pegasus-H launches several Orbcomm satellites.
• 1996 - An Atlas IIA launches the Inmarsat 3F1 satellite.