Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/5 January

• 1969 - A Molniya-M rocket launches Venera 5 to Venus.
• 1984 - A Kosmos-3M rocket launches eight Strela spacecraft.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-3 rocket launches a Meteor weather satellite.
• 2014 - A GSLV Mk II launches the GSAT-14 satellite. This is the first successful use of an Indian-built cryogenic upper stage.