Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/26 April

• 1962 - A Scout X-2 fails to launch the SR-4B satellite.
• 1962 - A Vostok-K launches the Kosmos 4 satellite.
• 1962 - A Thor-Delta launches the first British satellite, Ariel 1.
• 1962 - An Atlas-Agena launches the FTV 2401 satellite.
• 1963 - A Scout X-2 fails to launch the OPS 1298 satellite.
• 1963 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch a CORONA satellite.
• 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 116 satellite.
• 1967 - A Scout B launches the San Marco 2 satellite.
• 1967 - A Titan IIIB fails to launch a KH-8 satellite.
• 1968 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 219 satellite.
• 1974 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 905 satellite.
• 1978 - A Scout F launches the HCMM satellite.
• 1980 - An Atlas E/F launches the GPS-I-6 satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1457 satellite.
• 1985 - A Molniya-M launches a Prognoz satellite.
• 1988 - A Scout G-1 launches the SOOS 3 satellite.
• 1988 - A Proton-K launches the Kosmos 1940 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches a Foton spacecraft.
• 1990 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1993 - Space Shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-55, a Spacelab research mission.
• 1994 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2279 satellite.
• 2003 - A Soyuz-FG launches the manned Soyuz TMA-2 mission to the ISS.
• 2004 - A Proton-K launches the Ekspress AM-11 satellite.
• 2005 - A Zenit-3SL launches the Spaceway 1 satellite.
• 2006 - The first Long March 4C launches the Yaogan 1 satellite.
• 2008 - A Soyuz-FG/Fregat launches GIOVE-B.
• 2012 - A PSLV launches RISAT-1.
• 2013 - A Long March 2D launches Gaofen 1 and 3 cubesats.
• 2013 - A Soyuz-2-1b / Fregat launches the Kosmos 2485 GLONASS-M navigation satellite.