Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 March

• 1958 - A Juno I fails to launch the Explorer 2 satellite.
• 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 204 satellite.
• 1968 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 205 satellite.
• 1968 - A Scout B launches the Explorer 37 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 268 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 269 satellite.
• 1971 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1971 - A Voskhod rocket fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1974 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1974 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 634 satellite.
• 1978 - A Delta 2910 launches the Landsat 3 satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1248 satellite.
• 1981 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1249 satellite.
• 1982 - An Atlas-Centaur launches the Intelsat 504 satellite.
• 1982 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1342 satellite.
• 1984 - An Ariane 1 launches the Intelsat 508 satellite.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1633 satellite.
• 1999 - A Pegasus-XL launches the WIRE satellite.
• 2010 - A Long March 4C launches three reconnaissance satellites of the Yaogan 9 constellation.
• 2011 - An Atlas V launches USA-226, the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle.