Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/22 December

• 1960 - A Vostok-K fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1961 - An Atlas-Agena launches the Samos-5 satellite.
• 1962 - A Vostok-2 launches the Kosmos 12 satellite.
• 1965 - A Scout A launches the NNS O-6 satellite.
• 1970 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1975 - A Molniya-M launches the Prognoz-4 satellite.
• 1975 - A Proton-K launches a Raduga satellite.
• 1978 - A Kosmos-3M launches the Kosmos 1065 satellite.
• 1984 - A Titan 34D launches the USA-7 satellite.
• 1988 - A Long March 3 launches the Chinasat-2 satellite.
• 1988 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-3 satellite.
• 1990 - A Tsyklon-3 launches six Strela satellites.
• 1992 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2225 satellite.
• 1992 - A Tsyklon-3 launches the Kosmos 2226 satellite.
• 1993 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1T satellite.
• 1994 - A Titan IV launches the USA-107 satellite.
• 1997 - An Ariane 4 launches the Intelsat 804 satellite.
• 1998 - An Ariane 4 launches the PanAmSat-6B satellite.
• 1999 - An Ariane 4 launches the Galaxy-11 satellite.
• 2011 - A Long March 4B launches the Zi Yuan 1-02C satellite.
• 2015 - The first Falcon 9 v1.1 FT launches eleven Orbcomm comsats. Its first stage lands successfully at Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, becoming the first rocket stage recovered after an orbital launch.