Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/9 July

• 1970 - A Voskhod launches the Kosmos 353 satellite.
• 1974 - A Vostok-2M launches a Meteor satellite.
• 1980 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Strela satellites.
• 1980 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1200 satellite.
• 1987 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1866 satellite.
• 1988 - A Soyuz-U fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1991 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2152 satellite.
• 1992 - An Ariane 4 launches the Insat 2A and Eutelsat 2F4 satellites.
• 1996 - An Ariane 4 launches the Turksat 1C and Arabsat 2A satellite.
• 1997 - A Delta II launches five Iridium satellites.
• 1999 - A Delta II launches four Globalstar satellites.
• 2012 - A Proton-M/Briz-M launches the SES-5 communication satellite.