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Space launch vehicle imagined on a Gobelins tapestry, ordered by Colbert and drawn by Le Brun, 1664.. Space travel has long been a significant ambition in French culture.From the Gobelins' 1664 tapestry representing a space rocket, [1] to Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon and George Méliès' 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, space and rocketry were present in French society long ...
Orbital joined SpaceX as one of only two private entities to supply the International Space Station with its launch of the Cygnus Orb-D1 mission on its Antares rocket on September 28, 2013. [16] United States SpaceX (USA) became the second company to launch a rocket into orbit using a rocket developed with private—not government—funds. [17]
France carried out two suborbital Astérix prototype flights on 31 May and 3 June 1965 using Rubis rockets from the CIEES launch complex Bacchus at Hammaguir, Algeria. [7] Astérix was launched on 26 November 1965 by a Diamant A rocket from the CIEES launch complex Brigitte/A at Hammaguir. [4]
The launch infrastructure at the CSG is owned by the European Space Agency, while the land itself belongs to and is managed by CNES, the French national space agency. As of May 2021 [update] , Arianespace had launched more than 850 satellites in 287 missions spanning 41 years.
Countries represented only by suborbital space flyers are shaded. Note: citizens from the now-defunct East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Soviet Union have also flown in space. Since the first human spaceflight by the Soviet Union, citizens of 48 countries have flown in space. For each nationality, the launch date of the first mission is listed.
Launched on the same rocket as the first Omani satellite Armenia: Hayasat-1: Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory: Bazoomq Space Research Laboratory, Center of Scientific Innovation and Education Falcon 9: Vandenberg SLC-4E: 1 December 2023 Formerly part of the Soviet Union. Launched on the same rocket as the first Irish satellite Ireland: EIRSAT-1
China / France: Space Variable Objects Monitor: Earth: Operational: X-ray space telescope developed jointly by CNES and CNSA. Successfully launched on 22 June 2024 on a Long March 2C launch vehicle. EU: Hera: 65803 Didymos: En route
This is a timeline of known spaceflights, both crewed and uncrewed, sorted chronologically by launch date.Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951.