Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/18 December
Appearance
- 1958 - An Atlas B launches the SCORE satellite.
- 1963 - An Atlas-Agena launches a KH-7 satellite.
- 1970 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 388 satellite.
- 1970 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 389 satellite.
- 1973 - A Soyuz launches the manned Soyuz 13 mission.
- 1974 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 698 satellite.
- 1986 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1809 satellite.
- 1991 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Interkosmos-25 satellite.
- 1992 - A Delta II launches the GPS IIA-17 satellite.
- 1993 - An Ariane 4 launches the DBS-1 and Thaicom 1 satellites.
- 1995 - A Soyuz-U launches the Progress M-30 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
- 1996 - An Atlas IIA launches the Inmarsat 3F3 satellite.
- 1999 - An Atlas IIAS launches the Terra satellite.
- 2003 - An Atlas IIIB launches the USA-174 satellite.
- 2004 - An Ariane 5 launches the Helios IIA and ASAP satellites.
- 2006 - An H-IIA launches the ETS-8 satellite.
- 2009 - The last Ariane 5GS launches the Helios IIB satellite.
- 2012 - A Long March 2D launches the Göktürk-2 satellite for Turkey.