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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 ...
Space launch vehicle imagined on a Gobelins tapestry, ordered by Colbert and drawn by Le Brun, 1664.. Space travel has long been a significant ambition in French culture.From the Gobelins' 1664 tapestry representing a space rocket, [1] to Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, space and rocketry were present in French society long ...
Tanegashima Space Center Yoshinobu Launch Complex: 24 September 2019: Decay from orbit 27 April 2022 Sudan: Sudan Remote Sensing Satellite 1 : Sudan: ISRA: Long March 4B: Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre LC-9: 3 November 2019 Ethiopia: Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite 1 : Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute
This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: It includes: All spacecraft that have left Earth orbit for the purposes of Solar System exploration (or were launched with that intention but failed), including lunar probes .
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
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.
Failed to orbit. Fourth stage did not ignite. [1] 14.52 kg (31.94 lb) March 17 US: Vanguard 1C: Vanguard TV-4: Success: Vanguard 1. Expected to de-orbit in ~2240AD, this and its upper launch stage are the oldest human-made objects in space. Also the first use of solar cells to power a satellite. [1] 1.47 kg (3.25 lb) March 26 US: Explorer 3 ...
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.