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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 ...
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 ...
Launch of the largest space telescope to date. USA (NASA) ESA Canada (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope [82] 26 September 2022: First asteroid measurably deflected by a spacecraft. First spacecraft to make contact with an asteroid moon (impact on Dimorphos). USA (NASA) DART [83] 23 August 2023 First landing at the lunar south polar region. India
Second and last Galileo launch on a Falcon 9 and overall thirteenth launch of Galileo satellites, carrying two satellites. Originally planned to launch on Soyuz ST-B, but scrapped due to geopolitical factors. Then moved to Ariane 6, which was also scrapped due to delays. Europe contracted SpaceX to launch the two pairs aboard Falcon 9. 19 September
The powerful $9 billion infrared telescope, hailed by NASA as the premiere space-science observatory of the next decade, was carried aloft inside the cargo bay of an Ariane 5 rocket that blasted ...
The most powerful space telescope ever is set to lift off around lunchtime on December 25 from its launchpad in French Guiana. James Webb Space Telescope set for launch on Christmas Day Skip to ...
James Webb Space Telescope: Earth-Sun L 2 point: Success: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA, ESA and CSA's joint project for a space telescope. It was launched on December 25 with Ariane 5 ECA rocket to Earth-Moon L 2 point. 2022 US: CAPSTONE: Near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) of Moon: Operational
Space agency Planned launch date Location Ref(s) SPHEREx: NASA: 2025: Earth orbit [222] Xuntian: CNSA/CAS: 2026: Low Earth orbit [223] [224] [225] PLATO: ESA: 2026: Geosynchronous orbit [226] ULTRASAT: Israel Space Agency: 2026: Sun–Earth L 2 Lagrange point [227] Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: NASA: 2027: Sun–Earth L 2 Lagrange point ...