Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/20 November

• 1959 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 8 satellite.
• 1971 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 457 satellite.
• 1973 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 608 satellite.
• 1974 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 695 satellite.
• 1975 - A Delta 2910 launches the Explorer 55 spacecraft.
• 1981 - A Delta 3910 launches the Satcom 3R satellite.
• 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Bhaskara 2 satellite.
• 1986 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1793 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 33 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1990 - An Ariane 4 launches the Satcom C1 and GSTAR-4 satellites.
• 1990 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2105 satellite.
• 1991 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2171 satellite.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2220 satellite.
• 1993 - An Ariane 4 launches the Solidarad 1 and Meteosat 6 satellites.
• 1994 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
• 1998 - A Proton-K launches Zarya, the first module of the International Space Station.
• 2000 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch the QuickBird 1 satellite.
• 2002 - The Delta IV makes its maiden flight, launching the Eutelsat W5 satellite.
• 2004 - A Delta II launches the Swift satellite.
• 2009 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2455 spacecraft.
• 2010 - A Minotaur IV launches the STPSat-2, NanoSail-D2, FASTSAT, RAX, O/OREOS, FalconSat-5, FASTRAC 1&2 satellites.
• 2011 - A Long March 2D launches the Shiyan Weixing 4 and Chuangxin 1-03 satellites.
• 2012 - A Proton-M launches the Echostar XVI satellite.
• 2013 - A Minotaur I launches STPSat-3 and 28 other satellites, breaking the record for the most number of satellites launched at the same time.
• 2013 - A Long March 4C launches the Yaogan 19 satellite.