Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 April


 * 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.
 * 2009 - A Proton-M/Briz-M launches the Eutelsat W2A satellite.
 * 2012 - A Delta IV launches the USA-234 reconnaissance satellite.