Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/23 December


 * 1969 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 316 satellite.
 * 1969 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 317 satellite.
 * 1977 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 971 satellite.
 * 1978 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 1066 satellites.
 * 1980 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela satellites.
 * 1981 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
 * 1982 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Kosmos 1425 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1904 satellite.
 * 1988 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1985 satellite.
 * 1997 - A Pegasus-XL launches eight Orbcomm satellites.
 * 2004 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-51 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
 * 2007 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-62 spacecraft to resupply the ISS.
 * 2008 - A Long March 3A launches the Feng Yun 2E satellite.
 * 2011 - A Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat fails to launch the Meridian 5 satellite.