Launch record · 123 launches match

Launches in 1981

Launches per year by launch-site region

6,943 launches · 27,711 payloads since 1957

United States
Russia / Kazakhstan
China
Other / unknown site

Monthly cadence · last 36 months

205 launches in 2026

Date	COSPAR	Primary payload	Payloads	Objects	On orbit	Site	Owners
23 Dec 1981	1981-123	MOLNIYA 1-52	1	5	3	Baikonur Cosmodrome (Tyuratam)	CIS
20 Dec 1981	1981-122	MARECS-A	2	3	2	Guiana Space Centre, Kourou	ESA
19 Dec 1981	1981-121	COSMOS 1330

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.