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November 11 in spaceflight

26 orbital launches flew on November 11, the earliest of them in 1962, and 24 reached orbit. Wikipedia records 4 spaceflight and astronomy events on November 11. Below are the pictures NASA published on November 11 in 3 different years — each one taken or released on this exact date.

DATE

Launches

ON RECORD

26MISSIONS

24 of them reached orbit. The earliest was 1962, the most recent 2025.

Recorded events

IN THE RECORD

4ENTRIES

Spaceflight and astronomy entries from Wikipedia's record of this date, oldest first — from 1572 onward.

Pictures from this date

PUBLISHED

3IMAGES

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

Published on November 11

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

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.

© Julien Looten — used with the credit NASA publishes

What happened on November 11

  2. 1673

    Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.

    Battle of Khotyn (1673) ↗

  4. 1982

    Space Shuttle Columbia launches from the Kennedy Space Center on STS-5, the first operational mission of the Space Shuttle program.

    Space Shuttle Columbia ↗

Every launch on November 11

26 launches

ONLINE
  1. 2025Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-87SpXSUCCESS
  2. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-69SpXSUCCESS
  3. 2024Falcon 9 Block 5 | Koreasat 6ASpXSUCCESS
  4. 2024Kinetica 1 | 15 satellitesCASSUCCESS
  5. 2023Falcon 9 Block 5 | Transporter 9 (Dedicated SSO Rideshare)SpXSUCCESS
  6. 2022Long March 6A | Yunhai 3CASCSUCCESS
  7. 2021Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-3SpXSUCCESS
  8. 2019Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink 1SpXSUCCESS
  9. 2018Electron | It's Business Time (Rideshare)RLSUCCESS
  10. 2016Long March 2D | YunHai 1-01CASCSUCCESS
  11. 2016Atlas V 401 | WorldView-4ULASUCCESS
  12. 2013Proton-M Briz-M | Raduga-1M 3KhSCSUCCESS
  13. 2007Long March 4C | Yaogan Weixing 3CASCSUCCESS
  14. 2007Delta IV Heavy | DSP-23ULASUCCESS
  15. 1994Soyuz U | Progress M-25RFSASUCCESS
  16. 1988Soyuz U | Yantar-4KS1 11CCCPFAILURE
  17. 1987Soyuz U | Zenit-8 54CCCPSUCCESS
  18. 1983Kosmos-3M | Taifun-1 16CCCPSUCCESS
  19. 1982Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-5ROISUCCESS
  20. 1982Kosmos-3M | Strela-2M 30CCCPSUCCESS
  21. 1976Soyuz U | Zenit-4MK 70CCCPSUCCESS
  22. 1970Voskhod | Zenit-2M 14CCCPSUCCESS
  23. 1966Titan II GLV | Gemini XIINASASUCCESS
  24. 1966Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | GATV 12USAFSUCCESS
  25. 1963Molniya 8K78 | Zond-1aCCCPFAILURE
  26. 1962Atlas Agena B | Samos-E6 5USAFSUCCESS

FIELD KIT / LIBRARY

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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.

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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.

    VIEW

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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.

    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.