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In 2024, the company announced that a booster recovered on an earlier launch would be reused. [120] Rocket Lab was founded in New Zealand in 2006. [121] By 2009, [122] the successful launch of Ātea-1 [122] made the organization the first private company in the Southern Hemisphere to reach space. [121]
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) [1] was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. [2]
This text mentions the first known multistage rocket, the 'fire-dragon issuing from the water' (huo long chu shui), thought to have been used by the Chinese navy. [11] Rocket launchers known as "wasp nests" were ordered by the Ming army in 1380. [12] In 1400, the Ming loyalist Li Jinglong used rocket launchers against the army of Zhu Di (Yongle ...
The first-stage booster of Falcon 9 Flight 9 made the first successful controlled ocean soft touchdown of a liquid-rocket-engine orbital booster on April 18, 2014. [31] [32] 2015 - SpaceX's Falcon 9 Flight 20 was the first time that the first stage of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing. [33]
First sound recording made on another planet. USSR 1 March 1982 Orbital Space Station: Soyuz T-5, Salyut 7: First species of plant to flower in space. [63] Arabidopsis thaliana Valentin Lebedev. USSR 1 July 1982 Trans-Neptunian region: Pioneer 10: First to travel past the orbit of Neptune, the furthest major planet from the Sun. USA 13 June ...
Goddard's final launch from Auburn, on July 17, 1929, was also a historic first. The 11-foot (3.4 m) rocket carried an aneroid barometer, thermometer, and a camera triggered when the parachute opened. All three instruments operated successfully and were recovered.
Based in Dnipro, not far from the front lines in war-ravaged southeastern Ukraine, Promin was working toward its first rocket launch when Russia invaded in 2022.
BBC World: Brazil Launches rocket into space; Space.com: Brazil completes successful rocket launch; Herald Tribune: Brazil launches rocket for gravity research; AFP: Iran rocket test 'unfortunate': White House; Space-Travel.com: Iran opens its first space centre, riling the US; New York Times: Iran Launches Rocket to Commemorate New Space Center