Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/26 September


 * 1958 - A Vanguard fails to launch a Vanguard satellite.
 * 1966 - A Lambda-4S fails to launch an unknown satellite.
 * 1967 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 180 satellite.
 * 1968 - A Titan IIIC launches the OV2-5 and LES-6 satellites.
 * 1974 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 686 satellite.
 * 1975 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Intelsat 4A-F1 satellite.
 * 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1212 satellite.
 * 1983 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch a manned mission which would have been Soyuz T-10 if it had reached orbit. The rocket exploded after a fire on the launch pad, the three cosmonauts aboard survived through use of the launch escape system.
 * 1985 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1685 satellite.
 * 1991 - An Ariane 4 launches the Anik E1 satellite.
 * 1993 - An Ariane 4 launches the SPOT-3, ASAP-4 and Stella satellites.
 * 1995 - A Soyuz-U launches a Resurs satellite.
 * 1996 - A Proton-K launches the Ekspress-12 satellite.
 * 1997 - launches on Shuttle-Mir mission STS-86.
 * 1999 - A Proton-K launches the LMI-1 satellite.
 * 2000 - A Dnepr-1 launches the Tiungsat and Megsat-1 satellites.
 * 2002 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Nadezhda-M satellite.
 * 2005 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIR-14 satellite.
 * 2010 - A Minotaur IV launches the SBSS-1 satellite.