Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/9 September


 * 1961 - An Atlas-Agena fails to launch the Samos 3 satellite.
 * 1965 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 85 satellite.
 * 1975 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
 * 1975 - An N-I launches the Kiku-1 satellite.
 * 1975 - A Titan IIIE with a Centaur upper stage launches the Viking 2 orbiter and lander spacecraft towards Mars.
 * 1978 - A Proton launches the Venera 11 lander spacecraft towards Venus.
 * 1978 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1031 satellite.
 * 1980 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
 * 1980 - A Delta 3914 launches the GOES 4 satellite.
 * 1982 - A Long March 2C launches an FSW satellite.
 * 1982 - An Ariane 1 fails to launch the Marecs-B satellite.
 * 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1497 satellite.
 * 1987 - A Long March 2C launches an FSW-1 satellite.
 * 1988 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1968 satellite.
 * 1988 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 38 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
 * 1992 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIA-15 satellite.
 * 1994 - An Ariane 4 launches the Telstar 402 satellite.
 * 1994 - launches on scientific research mission STS-64.
 * 1998 - A Zenit-2 fails to launch a cluster of Globalstar satellites.
 * 1999 - A Soyuz-U launches the Foton-12 satellite.
 * 2003 - A Titan IV launches an Advanced Orion satellite.
 * 2006 - A Long March 2C launches the SJ-8 satellite.
 * 2006 - launches on STS-115, the first ISS assembly mission after the Columbia accident.
 * 2012 - A PSLV-CA launches the SPOT 6 and PROITERES satellites.