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With a launch of Dragon 2 on May 30, 2020 SpaceX became the first company to launch humans to orbit. United States American private company Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket from Mahia Launch Center in New Zealand on January 21, 2018, carrying three cubesats into low Earth orbit. This was the first time that a rocket entered ...
Launch site Date (UTC) Lebanon [29] ARZ-3 Ceadar-3: Dbayeh: 21 November 1962 Yemen [30] Warhead Burkan-2: Sa'dah: 4 November 2017 Sealand [31] Postcard New Shepard: Corn Ranch, Launch Site One 13 October 2020 13:36 British Antarctic Territory [32] Postcard New Shepard: Corn Ranch, Launch Site One 14 January 2021 16:57
France also became the third country after the USSR and US to launch a satellite on its own rocket: the British, Canadian, and Italian satellites were launched on American rockets. [4] [6] Astérix remains in orbit as of 2024. Due to the relatively high altitude of its orbit, it is not expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere for several ...
The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race, launching the first satellite, [1] the first animal, [2]: 155 the first human [3] and the first woman [4] into orbit. The United States landed the first men on the Moon in 1969.
A satellite developed by China and France, the most powerful yet for studying the farthest explosion of stars, was launched into orbit on Saturday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. The ...
Oldest satellite still in orbit, in addition to its upper launch stage. Expected to stay in orbit 240 years. Ceased transmission in May 1964. USA 17 March 1958 Earth: Pioneer 1: Failed to reach the Moon as intended, but reached a record–setting distance of 113,800 kilometres (70,700 mi) from Earth. USA 11 October 1958 Earth: Luna 1
1963: CNES became the first—and only—space agency to successfully launch a cat into space. [9] 1964: Diamant Launch Vehicle introduced. [8] 1965: First French satellite put in orbit. [10] 1967: Hammaguir range closed. [8] 1968: Toulouse Space Centre completed. [11] 1969: Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana completed. [7] 1973: Évry Space ...
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.