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 - Space Shuttle Discovery 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 - Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-115, the first ISS assembly mission after the Columbia accident.
• 2012 - A PSLV-CA launches the SPOT 6 and PROITERES satellites.