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January 25 in spaceflight

22 orbital launches flew on January 25, the earliest of them in 1964, and 18 reached orbit. Below are the pictures NASA published on January 25 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

22MISSIONS

18 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1964, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

NONE FOUND

0ENTRIES

Wikipedia records no spaceflight or astronomy event on this date.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for January 25, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on January 25

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, for this calendar date in each of the last several years.

NASA Science

2026

NASA Science

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

2025

NASA Science

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

© Jeff Schilling — used with the credit NASA publishes

NASA Science

2024

NASA Science

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

© Harri Kiiskinen — used with the credit NASA publishes

NASA Science

2023

NASA Science

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

2022

NASA Science

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

NASA · public domain

NASA Science

2021

NASA Science

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

NASA · public domain

Every launch on January 25

22 launches

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  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-20SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2022Long March 4C | L-SAR 01ACASCSUCCESS
  3. 2018Ariane 5 ECA | Al Yah 3 & SES-14ASAPARTIAL
  4. 2018Long March 2C | 3 x Yaogan-30CASCSUCCESS
  5. 2012Soyuz-U | Progress M-14M (46P)RFSASUCCESS
  6. 2003Pegasus XL | Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)OSCSUCCESS
  7. 2000Long March 3A | Zhongxing 22CASCSUCCESS
  8. 2000Ariane 42L | Galaxy 10RASASUCCESS
  9. 1996Proton | Gorizont 31KhSCSUCCESS
  10. 1995Long March 2E | Apstar 2CASCFAILURE
  11. 1994Titan II SLV | Clementine 1USAFSUCCESS
  12. 1994Tsiklon-3 | Meteor-3 6VKSSUCCESS
  13. 1992Soyuz-U2 | Progress M-11RFSASUCCESS
  14. 1990Soyuz U | Yantar-4K2 50CCCPSUCCESS
  15. 1983Kosmos-3M | Taifun-2 14CCCPFAILURE
  16. 1980Kosmos-3M | Parus 23CCCPSUCCESS
  17. 1979Vostok 8A92M | Meteor-Priroda 2-3CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1972Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-Yu 50CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1969Tsiklon-2A | US-AO 5CCCPFAILURE
  20. 1967R-36O 8K69 | OGCh 7CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1966Kosmos 11K63 | DS-P1-I 1CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1964Thor SLV-2 Agena B | Echo 2USAFSUCCESS

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    Cosmos — Carl Sagan

    Still the best single argument for why any of this matters, and it leaves the arithmetic in. For a reader who wants the science, not just the awe.

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    Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan

    The case for leaving Earth, written by someone unsentimental about how hard that is. Suits readers who want the argument rather than the poster.

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    Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

    Hard-SF problem solving in The Martian's key — for anyone who liked the engineering more than the peril. The only novel on this list.

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Sources and licences

Event text and thumbnails come from Wikipedia and are used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Images are drawn only from Wikimedia Commons, which does not accept non-free content — each thumbnail links to its file page, where its licence and author are recorded.

Launch records are from The Space Devs’ Launch Library 2. Pictures are NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day; NASA imagery is generally not subject to copyright, but individual APOD entries are frequently the property of the photographer, and each caption says which applies.