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The latter rocket's development continued through 2021 at SpaceX's facility in Boca Chica, Texas, with a suborbital testing campaign continuing from the previous year. Starship prototype SN15 was the first testbed of the future rocket family to survive a launch and soft touchdown on 5 May 2021.
8 December 2021, Soyuz MS-20: ISS: 20 December 2021, Soyuz MS-20: 339 Laura Shepard Churchley Michael Strahan Dylan Taylor Evan Dick Lane Bess Cameron Bess 11 December 2021 NS 19. Reached an altitude of greater than 100 km (62 mi), crossing the FAI definition of space. 340 Oleg Artemyev (3) Denis Matveev Sergey Korsakov: 18 March 2022, Soyuz MS ...
Ariane flight VA256 was an Ariane 5 rocket flight that launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) into space on 25 December 2021. [3] It was 2021's final Ariane flight, its most valuable payload to date, and the 256th Ariane mission. The launch was described by NASA as "flawless" and "perfect". [4]
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the second half of the year 2021, including launches planned for 2021 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2021 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2021, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2021.
Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA expects to land the first helicopter on Mars. Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other ...
This launch will also carry LaserCube, Nebula and Worldfloods as hosted payloads in the ION SCV-3 deployer and TagSat-2 as hosted payload in the SHERPA-FX2 deployer. [228] The two LINCS satellites entered an uncontrollable tumble after deployment due to "an issue with the launch vehicle".
Landsat 9 is an Earth observation satellite launched on 27 September 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on an Atlas V 401 launch vehicle. [12] NASA is in charge of building, launching, and testing the satellite, while the United States Geological Survey (USGS) operates the satellite, and manages and distributes the data archive. [13]
A SpaceX rocket safely lifted off from Florida on Sunday night carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on their way to the International Space Station (ISS) to begin a six ...