Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/24 December
- 1965 - A Thor-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
- 1974 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 699 satellite.
- 1979 - An Ariane 1 launches an unknown satellite.
- 1982 - A Proton-K fails to launch an unknown satellite.
- 1985 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
- 1985 - A Proton-K launches three GLONASS satellites.
- 1996 - A Soyuz-U launches the Bion 11 satellite.
- 1997 - A Start-1 launches the EarlyBird satellite.
- 1997 - A Proton-K launches the Asiasat 3 satellite.
- 1998 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 2361 satellite.
- 2002 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 2393 satellite.
- 2004 - A Tsyklon-3 fails to launch the Sich-1M satellite.
- 2006 - A Soyuz-2.1a launches the Meridian 1 satellite.