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The latter rocket's development continued through 2021 at SpaceX's facility in Boca Chica, Texas, with a suborbital testing campaign continuing from the previous year. Starship prototype SN15 was the first testbed of the future rocket family to survive a launch and soft touchdown on 5 May 2021.
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the second half of the year 2021, including launches planned for 2021 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2021 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2021, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2021.
13 October 2021 NS 18. Reached an altitude of 107 km (66 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space. 336 Zhai Zhigang (2) Wang Yaping (2) Ye Guangfu (1) 15 October 2021 Shenzhou 13: TSS: 16 April 2022 Shenzhou 13: Second crew to Tiangong Space Station. 337 Raja Chari Thomas Marshburn (3) Kayla Barron Matthias Maurer: 11 November 2021 SpaceX Crew ...
The launch will use the company’s Falcon 9 rocket; the first-stage booster that will be used previously launched the Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar ...
Space Centre Australia secured land for main site facilities for space launch, located 43km east of Weipa, close to RAAF Scherger in 2023. [91] Final approvals may come under Mokwiri Aboriginal Corporation. [91] Previously a Cape York Space Agency was established by the government to develop a facility for Ukrainian Zenit launches at
After a near-perfect flight traveling 3,600 miles (5,800 km) above Earth, the spacecraft was recovered for study. NASA plans to use the Orion crew vehicle to send humans to deep space locations such as the Moon and Mars starting in the 2020s.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The mission will send a Mars rover to the Red ...
First launch of production Starlink satellites to polar orbits. 18 Launch 18 v1 2021-009 4 February 2021, 06:19:00 [52] Cape Canaveral, SLC-40: 550 km (340 mi) 53.0° 60 56 Success 19 Launch 19 v1 2021-012 16 February 2021, 03:59:37 [53] Cape Canaveral, SLC-40: 550 km (340 mi) 53.0° 60 57 Success 20 Launch 17 v1 2021-017 4 March 2021, 08:24:54 ...