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On 23 November 2015, the Blue Origin New Shepard suborbital rocket achieved its first powered soft landing near the launch site, paving the way for full reuse of its propulsion stage. On 21 December, the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust took place, ending with a successful landing of its first stage.
First flight of the Long March 9 super heavy-lift launch vehicle. 2033 (TBD) [41] New Glenn: Cape Canaveral LC-36: Blue Origin: Foundational Surface Habitat: NASA: Selenocentric to lunar surface: Lunar surface habitat The Foundational Surface Habitat will be the first component of the Artemis Base Camp lunar outpost. 2033 (TBD) [46] SLS Block ...
Falcon 9 flight 20 (also known as Orbcomm OG2 M2) [1] was a Falcon 9 space launch that occurred on 22 December 2015 at 01:29:00 UTC (21 December, 8:29:00 pm local time). It was the first time that the first stage of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing.
Launch site Payload Payload mass Orbit Customer Launch outcome AV-052 January 21, 2015, 01:04 Atlas V 551: CCAFS SLC-41: MUOS-3: 6,740 kg GTO: DoD: Success [34] Third Mobile User Objective System satellite; 200th Atlas-Centaur launch. AV-053 March 13, 2015, 02:44 Atlas V 421: CCAFS SLC-41: MMS: 1,360 kg HTO: NASA: Success [35] NASA ...
The first successful launch of an Athena II carried NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft on a mission to search for traces of water or ice on the moon. Terra (Atlas IIAS) NASA launched the Earth Observing System's flagship satellite "Terra," named for Earth, in 1999. Terra has been collecting data about the changes in Earth's climate brought on ...
This is the timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date. Owing to its large size, the timeline is split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. There are over 80 currently active science missions.
The joint NASA-ESA Titan Saturn System Mission proposal envisioned the SLS as an option for launch. [26] On 10 February 2021, it was announced that Europa Clipper would not launch aboard an SLS. [27] In July 2021, NASA booked a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch for Europa Clipper at a price of $178 million. [28]