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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 ...
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. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951.
2021 — James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was launched 25 December 2021 on an ESA Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA's flagship mission in astrophysics. 2023 — Euclid, was launched on 1 July 2023 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study dark matter and ...
Launch of the largest space telescope to date. USA (NASA) ESA Canada (CSA) James Webb Space Telescope [82] 26 September 2022: First asteroid measurably deflected by a spacecraft. First spacecraft to make contact with an asteroid moon (impact on Dimorphos). USA (NASA) DART [83] 23 August 2023 First landing at the lunar south polar region. India
The telescope (the largest in the world at that time) saw first light January 26, 1949, targeting NGC 2261. [10] The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was the first astronomer to use the telescope. The 200-inch telescope was the largest telescope in the world from 1949 until 1975, when the Russian BTA-6 telescope saw first light.
James Webb Space Telescope: Earth-Sun L 2 point: Success: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), NASA, ESA and CSA's joint project for a space telescope. It was launched on December 25 with Ariane 5 ECA rocket to Earth-Moon L 2 point. 2022 US: CAPSTONE: Near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) of Moon: Operational
James Webb Space Telescope: 25 December 2021 Infrared space telescope at Sun–Earth L 2 [487] [488] CAPSTONE: 28 June 2022 Lunar orbiter [489] Danuri 5 August 2022 Lunar orbiter [490] Artemis 1 and 10 cubesats 16 November 2022 Uncrewed lunar orbital test of Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System. The cubesats are launched as rideshares and ...
The 1.02 m (40 in) Pomona College Telescope is a Cassegrain reflector built at Pomona College. It first became operational in 1985, and had new mirrors installed in 1996. [5] [6] A 0.6 m Ritchey-Chrétien reflector built by Astro Mechanics was installed in 1966. It is attached to an off-axis German equatorial mount. [7]