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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.
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 ...
Vanguard 2: 7 August 1959: First photograph of Earth from Earth orbit. USA Explorer 6: 13 September 1959: First spacecraft to impact another celestial body (the Moon). First delivery of national pennants to a celestial body. USSR Luna 2: 4 October 1959: First photos of another world from space: the far side of the Moon. First gravity assist ...
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.
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 ...
List of spacewalks since 2015. This list contains all spacewalks performed since the beginning of 2015 where an astronaut has fully, or partially left the spacecraft. As of 19 August 2016, 215 astronauts have made spacewalks (out of 549 people who have gone into Earth orbit). [1] [2] [3] [4]
2 Success Space Development Agency: Likely operational Starshield satellites. Hosts infrared payloads manufactured by Leidos. Launched with one York Space Systems-built and 10 Lockheed Martin/Tyvak Space Systems-built Transport layer satellites on this mission. 5 USA 350-351: v2.0 Mini 2024-050 19 March 2024, 02:28 VSFB, SLC-4E: 525 km (326 mi)
Unix time. 1546300800 – 1577836799. 2019 ( MMXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2019th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 19th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2010s decade.