Launch record · 123 launches match
Launches per year by launch-site region
6,943 launches · 27,711 payloads since 1957
Monthly cadence · last 36 months
205 launches in 2026
Launches are derived: SatelliteIndex groups catalogued objects by the launch part of their COSPAR international designator (e.g. 1998-067) and takes the earliest launch date and the launch site from SATCAT. Launches that placed nothing in the catalogue (failures below orbit, suborbital flights) do not appear. Region split uses the launch-site country. See the methodology.
The last bar is the current month (partial).
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| Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam) |
| CIS |
| 05 Mar 1981 | 1981-020 | COSMOS 1248 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 28 Feb 1981 | 1981-019 | OPS 1166 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Vandenberg Space Force Base (Western Range), California | US |
| 21 Feb 1981 | 1981-018 | ESIAFI 1 (COMSTAR 4) | 1 | 2 | 2 | Cape Canaveral / Kennedy Space Center (Eastern Range), Florida | US |
| 21 Feb 1981 | 1981-017 | HINOTORI (ASTRO-A) | 1 | 3 | 0 | Uchinoura Space Center | JPN |
| 19 Feb 1981 | 1981-016 | COSMOS 1247 | 1 | 12 | 8 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 18 Feb 1981 | 1981-015 | COSMOS 1246 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam) | CIS |
| 13 Feb 1981 | 1981-014 | COSMOS 1245 | 1 | 6 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 12 Feb 1981 | 1981-013 | COSMOS 1244 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 11 Feb 1981 | 1981-012 | KIKU-3 (ETS-IV) | 1 | 3 | 2 | Tanegashima Space Center | JPN |
| 06 Feb 1981 | 1981-011 | INTERCOSMOS 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 02 Feb 1981 | 1981-010 | COSMOS 1243 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam) | CIS |
| 30 Jan 1981 | 1981-009 | MOLNIYA 1-49 | 1 | 4 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 27 Jan 1981 | 1981-008 | COSMOS 1242 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 24 Jan 1981 | 1981-007 | PROGRESS 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam) | CIS |
| 21 Jan 1981 | 1981-006 | COSMOS 1241 | 1 | 3 | 3 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 20 Jan 1981 | 1981-005 | COSMOS 1240 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam) | CIS |
| 16 Jan 1981 | 1981-004 | COSMOS 1239 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 16 Jan 1981 | 1981-003 | COSMOS 1238 | 1 | 2 | 2 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 09 Jan 1981 | 1981-002 | MOLNIYA 3-14 | 1 | 4 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |
| 06 Jan 1981 | 1981-001 | COSMOS 1237 | 1 | 7 | 0 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome | CIS |