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February 11 in spaceflight

28 orbital launches flew on February 11, the earliest of them in 1965, and 27 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 5 spaceflight and astronomy events on February 11. Below are the pictures NASA published on February 11 in 6 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

28MISSIONS

27 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1965, the most recent 2026.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

5ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1970 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

6IMAGES

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for February 11, one per year. Some are public domain and some belong to the photographer — each says which.

Published on February 11

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.

NASA · public domain

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.

NASA · public domain

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.

© Felipe Mac Auliffe López — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Robert Nemiroff — used with the credit NASA publishes

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.

© Astro Anarchy — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on February 11

  1. 1970

    Japan launches Ohsumi, becoming the fourth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.

    Ohsumi (satellite) ↗

  3. 1999

    Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.

    Pluto ↗

Every launch on February 11

28 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2026Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-34SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 12-18SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2025Long March 8A | SatNet LEO Group 02 (Demo Flight)CASCSUCCESS
  4. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-10SpXSUCCESS
  5. 2015Falcon 9 | DSCOVRSpXSUCCESS
  6. 2015Vega | IXVASASUCCESS
  7. 2013Atlas V 401 | Landsat 8 (DCM)ULASUCCESS
  8. 2013Soyuz-U | Progress M-18M (50P)RFSASUCCESS
  9. 2010Atlas V 401 | SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory)ULASUCCESS
  10. 2009Proton-M | Ekspress AM-44 & MD-1KhSCSUCCESS
  11. 2008Proton-M Briz-M | Thor 5KhSCSUCCESS
  12. 2002Delta II | Iridium 91USAFSUCCESS
  13. 2000Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-99USASUCCESS
  14. 1997Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-82LSOCSUCCESS
  15. 1992H-1 | Fuyo 1MHISUCCESS
  16. 1992Atlas II | DSCS-3 B14USAFSUCCESS
  17. 1990Soyuz-U2 | Soyuz TM-9CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1986Tsiklon-3 | Geo-IK 7CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1982Tsiklon-2 | US-P 13CCCPSUCCESS
  20. 1981N-2 | Kiku-3NASDASUCCESS
  21. 1980Kosmos-3M | Strela-1M 185-192CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1977Molniya-M | Molniya-2 17CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1976Voskhod | Zenit-4MK 55CCCPSUCCESS
  24. 1974Titan IIIE | Sphinx (Titan IIIE Maiden Flight)LMTFAILURE
  25. 1970Thor Burner 2 | DSAP-5A F1USAFSUCCESS
  26. 1970Lambda 4S | Ohsumi 5ISASSUCCESS
  27. 1966Kosmos-2I 63S1 | DS-U1-G 1CCCPSUCCESS
  28. 1965Titan IIIA | LES 1USAFSUCCESS

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  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

  • LISTING

    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.

    VIEW

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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.