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1633 - Lagâri Hasan Çelebi launched a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka (140 lbs) of gunpowder from Sarayburnu, the point below Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. [3]1650 - Artis Magnae Artilleriae pars prima ("Great Art of Artillery, the First Part") is printed in Amsterdam, about a year before the death of its author, Kazimierz Siemienowicz.
This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches.
1983 - An N-II rocket launches the Sakura 2A communication satellite. 1986 - A Soyuz-U launches a Zenit-8 spy satellite. 1990 - A Long March 3 launches the Zhongxing-3 communication satellite. 1998 - An Ariane 4 launches the Brazilsat B3 and Inmarsat-3-F5 communication satellites. 2002 - An H-IIA rocket launches two technology development ...
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; MSNBC: Iran unveils space center, launches ...
SpaceX loses Starship rocket. Starship launch live: Stream of historic attempt begins. 12:30, Anthony Cuthbertson. The live stream of today’s Starship launch attempt is here, you can watch it below.
In 1929, the Slovene officer Hermann Noordung was the first to imagine a complete space station in his book The Problem of Space Travel. [7] [8] The first rocket to reach space was a German V-2 rocket, on a vertical test flight in June 1944. [9]
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