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Human presence in outer space began with the first launches of artificial object in the mid 20th century, and has increased to the point where Earth is orbited by a vast number of artificial objects and the far reaches of the Solar System have been visited and explored by a range of space probes.
Intelsat 708 was a telecommunications satellite built by the American company Space Systems/Loral for Intelsat.It was destroyed on 15 February 1996 when the Long March 3B launch vehicle failed while being launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China.
Vladimirovka test range, near Kapustin Yar: BOR-2 No.104 Suborbital Re-entry test for Spiral program: 8 February: Successful Subscale model of the Spiral spaceplane. [1] Apogee: 100 km February 14 03:27 Proton-K/Blok D (8K82K) Baikonur, LC-81/24: RVSN: Luna 20: Lunar: Lunar sample return: February 21, 1972 (at Moon) Successful
Schematic of the Kosmos-954 on-board reactor. Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard nuclear reactor; when the satellite reentered the Earth's atmosphere the following year, it scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some of the debris landing in the Great ...
Fifth GPS Block III satellite, named Neil Armstrong: USA-320: 2022-01-13 2022-002CV Falcon 9 Block 5: Unknown Launched with USA-321, USA-322 and USA-323 on Transporter 3 Rideshare Launch. Likely the satellites were built by SpaceX based on the Starshield bus (based on Starlink Block v1.5 technology), were deployed by the US army.
The Bataan Death March saw thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops killed as they were forced to march through perilous jungles by Japanese captors.
USA-215, believed to be the first operational payload resulting from the FIA program, crosses Cassiopeia. Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) was a program awarded to Boeing to design a new generation of optical and radar imaging US reconnaissance satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Holocaust survivors and survivors of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel were among thousands who took part Monday in the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors ...