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On 3 August 2019, the first set of Earth images were captured by the LI4 camera on the Vikram lander, showing the North American landmass. Selenocentric phase. After 29 days from its launch, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft stack entered lunar orbit on 20 August 2019 after performing a lunar orbit insertion burn for 28 minutes 57 seconds.
For the purpose of these lists, a spaceflight is defined as any flight that crosses the Kármán line, the FAI-recognized edge of space, which is 100 kilometres (62 miles) above mean sea level (AMSL). The timeline contains all flights which have crossed the edge of space, were intended to do so but failed, or are planned in the near future.
2015 in spaceflight. In 2015, the maiden spaceflights of the Chinese Long March 6 and Long March 11 launch vehicles took place. A total of 87 orbital launches were attempted in 2015, of which 82 were successful, one was partially successful and four were failures. The year also saw seven EVAs by ISS astronauts.
Box office. $400,000 (excluding Finland) [4] Iron Sky: The Coming Race is a 2019 Finnish-German comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola. The sequel to Vuorensola's 2012 film Iron Sky, its production was crowdfunded through Indiegogo.
Creola Katherine Johnson ( née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. [1] [2] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for ...
The Chinese probe Chang'e 4made humanity's first soft landing on the far side of the Moonon 3 January and released its Yutu 2rover to explore the lunar surface on the far side for the first time in human history. The first panorama from the far side of the Moon, captured by Chang'e 4lander. Israel's SpaceIL, one of the participants in the ...
486958 Arrokoth (provisional designation 2014 MU 69; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt.Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons conducted a flyby on 1 January 2019.
On 27 March 2019, India tested an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) during an operation code named Mission Shakti ( IAST: Śakti; lit. "Power" ). [1] [2] The target of the test was a satellite present in a low Earth orbit, which was hit with a kinetic kill vehicle . The ASAT test utilized a modified anti-ballistic missile interceptor code-named ...