Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/12 December

• 1961 - A Thor-Agena launches the Discoverer 36 satellite.
• 1966 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 135 satellite.
• 1968 - A Thorad-Agena launches a CORONA satellite.
• 1970 - A Scout B launches the Uhuru spacecraft.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 385 satellite.
• 1970 - A Diamant-B launches the Peole satellite.
• 1972 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-2 satellite.
• 1975 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 785 satellite.
• 1977 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 966 satellite.
• 1979 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1147 satellite.
• 1984 - An Atlas E/F launches the NOAA-9 satellite.
• 1985 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 1707 satellite.
• 1986 - A Molniya-M launches the Kosmos 1806 satellite.
• 1987 - A Tsyklon-2 launches the Kosmos 1900 satellite.
• 1999 - A Titan 23G launches the USA-147 satellite.
• 2011 - An H-IIA launches the IGS Radar 3 satellite.
• 2012 - North Korea conducts its first orbital launch when a Unha-3 launches the second Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 satellite.