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  2. Timeline of first orbital launches by country - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. French space program - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Timeline of Solar System exploration - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Comparison of orbital launch systems - Wikipedia

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    Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...

  6. Timeline of space exploration - Wikipedia

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    First spacecraft to orbit one of the Moon's Lagrange point (L2). USA (NASA) ARTEMIS-P1 [57] 22 October 2010: First spacecraft to orbit the Moon's Lagrange 1 point. USA (NASA) ARTEMIS-P2 [57] 18 March 2011: First orbit of Mercury. USA (NASA) MESSENGER: 16 July 2011: First orbit of an object in the asteroid belt . USA (NASA) Dawn: 6 August 2012

  7. Sino-French satellite launched into orbit, China's CCTV says

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    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 ...

  8. List of first satellites by country - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    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