Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/12 February

• 1961 - A Molniya launches the Venera 1 probe to Venus.
• 1965 - A Kosmos-2I fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1974 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-632 satellite.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-708 satellite.
• 1975 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-709 satellite.
• 1976 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-803 satellite.
• 1979 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos-1076 satellite.
• 1980 - A Molniya-M fails to launch the Kosmos-1164 satellite.
• 1981 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos-1244 satellite.
• 1986 - A N-II rocket launches the BS-2B satellite.
• 1987 - A Titan 34B launches an SDS satellite.
• 1991 - A Kosmos-3M launches eight Kosmos satellites.
• 1994 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela satellites.
• 1997 - The M-V makes its maiden flight, launching the MUSES-B satellite.
• 2000 - A Proton-K launches the Garuda-1 satellite.
• 2005 - An Ariane 5 launches the XTAR-EUR and Maqsat-B2 satellites.
• 2009 - An Ariane 5 launches the Hot Bird 10, and NSS-9 communication satellites, and two Spirale satellites.
• 2010 - A Proton-M launches the Intelsat 16 satellite.