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    • Vega C Launches FLEX and Sentinel-3C on a Shared Flight

      A Vega C rocket lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana carrying ESA's FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite, using the new Vespa Plus R adapter to deliver them to…

      Published 15 Sep 2026

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  3. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti / Public domain

    Crew-7

    The first Dragon crew drawn from four space agencies

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    Crew-7 launched on 26 August 2023 from Kennedy Space Center on a Falcon 9, carrying Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of ESA, Satoshi Furukawa of JAXA and Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos. Their Dragon Endurance docked autonomously with the International Space Station on 27 August.

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  4. Photo: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Public domain

    Euclid

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  5. Photo: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham / Public domain (US government work)

    James Webb Space Telescope

    A Christmas Day launch to a point a million miles away

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    The James Webb Space Telescope launched on an Ariane 5 from French Guiana on 25 December 2021 and travelled to the Sun-Earth L2 point, about a million miles from Earth. Its tennis-court-sized sunshield and 18-segment gold mirror unfolded on the way, and its first science images were released in July 2022.

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  6. Photo: NASA / Public domain

    Crew-2

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  7. Photo: NASA/Crew of STS-132 / Public domain

    The International Space Station program began in 1998 with the launch of the Zarya module, the first piece of a station assembled from Russian, American and European parts. The facts list its outcome as in progress, and plans now call for it to be deorbited.

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  9. Photo: European Space Agency / CC BY-SA 3.0 igo

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  10. Photo: NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain

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  12. Photo: NASA/Crew-2 / Public domain

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