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James Webb Space Telescope: 25 December 2021 Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L 2 [487] [488] CAPSTONE: 28 June 2022 Lunar orbiter [489] Danuri 5 August 2022 Lunar orbiter [490] Artemis 1 and 10 cubesats 16 November 2022 Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System. The cubesats are launched as rideshares and ...
The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into low Earth orbit. Discovery lifted off from Launch Complex 39B on April 24, 1990, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
14 February 1990: First photograph of the whole Solar System (Family Portrait). USA (NASA) Voyager 1 [36] 24 April 1990: First telescope designed to be repaired in space. USA (NASA) ESA Hubble Space Telescope [37] 2 July 1990: First time a spacecraft coming from deep space uses the Earth for a gravity-assist manoeuvre. ESA Giotto [38] 21 ...
2021 — James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was launched 25 December 2021 on an ESA Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA's flagship mission in astrophysics. 2023 — Euclid, was launched on 1 July 2023 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study dark matter and ...
Artificial satellites and space probes in the 1990s Year Origin Name Target Status Description 1990 US/ Europe: Ulysses: Sun: Success: Ulysses solar flyby Japan: Hiten: Moon: Success: Hiten probe, this was the first non-United States or USSR probe to reach the Moon US/ Europe: Hubble Space Telescope: Earth: Success: Launch of the Hubble Space ...
Space is very big and quite often, very weird. Last week, an image captured by NASA's Reconnaissance Orbiter looked just like a bear, and "The Green Comet" reached its closest point to Earth in ...
Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF)) Delta II Heavy 7920H-9.5 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 (CCAFS SLC 17) 2004 [13] 2004.04.20 Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Delta II 7920-10C Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2 West (VAFB SLC-2W) 2004.07.15 Aura (EOS CH-1) Delta II 7920-10L