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The Kepler mission, the 10th in NASA's Discovery missions, launched on a Delta II rocket, in 2009. The Kepler telescope was specifically designed to survey a portion of the region of the Milky Way galaxy for about three and a half years to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions ...
Rocket 4 (Under development, expected 2025) Neutron (Under development, expected 2025) Red Dwarf (Under development, expected 2024) Nova (Under development, expected ...
Hybrid-propellant rockets use a combination of solid and liquid propellant, typically involving a liquid oxidizer being pumped through a hollow cylinder of solid fuel. All current spacecraft use conventional chemical rockets (solid-fuel or liquid bipropellant) for launch, though some [note 3] have used air-breathing engines on their first stage ...
NASA brought the Orion spacecraft back to life from the defunct Constellation program and successfully test-launched the first capsule on December 5, 2014, aboard EFT-1. After a near-perfect flight traveling 3,600 miles (5,800 km) above Earth, the spacecraft was recovered for study.
Number of rocket launches – the total number of launches, including failed launches; Heaviest rocket launched – total mass at lift-off; Highest achieved altitude – height in km above launch site (unless orbital) Notes – comments; Major/active spaceports are shown in bold.
List of Ariane launches; List of Atlas launches; List of Black Brant launches; List of Delta IV Heavy launches; List of Delta IV Medium launches; List of Electron rocket launches; List of failed Thor and Delta launches; List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches; List of H-I and H-II launches; List of Launch Services Program launches; List of ...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...
In April, NASA launched a next-generation solar sail demonstration aboard a Rocket Lab Electron. [66] [67] ESA EarthCARE launched on May 28. Joint mission with JAXA. NASA's GOES-U launched on June 25, with the capability to detect coronal mass ejections. JAXA's ALOS-4 launched on July 1. It carries PALSAR-3 (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic ...