📽️ ¡Hoy hace 69 años se lanzó Sputnik 1!
Su sitio de lanzamiento se llama Sitio 1/5; ubicado en el Cosmódromo de Baikonur, se mantuvo operativo por 62 años hasta 2019.
También se conoce como "Plataforma Gagarin" ya que desde aquí se lanzó Yuri Gagarin al espacio en 1961.
WATCH: SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket on its most ambitious mission yet.
Described as "the most powerful rocket ever built," Starship Flight 14 roars off the launch pad as the spacecraft heads into orbit for the first time.
The mission calls for Starship to deploy 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites before eventually returning for a planned splashdown in the Pacific.
Newly released "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena" footage reaches all the way back to 1952, and decades later, the government still can't definitively say what was captured.
One newly digitized video filmed by Navy aerial photographer Delbert Newhouse appears to show multiple unexplained objects moving across the Utah sky. Other released material documents more recent unexplained sightings.
The Pentagon says the cases in its UAP archive remain unresolved, with officials unable to make a definitive determination about the phenomena captured.
The files are part of an ongoing government effort to declassify and publicly release UAP records spanning decades.
In 1959 a capsule with a 16mm camera was launched aboard a Thor missile. Designed to record footage of the missile, the engineers realized the device could record images of the Earth too. So this the first video footage of Earth from space on a 16mm film
Yesterday Isar Aerospace has become the first European private venture to launch satellites in Space. On 5 September 2026 the second launch of Spectrum rocket (dubbed "Onward and Upward") successfully happened from Andøya Spaceport in Norway.
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BREAKING: For the first time in history, a space launch from continental Europe has successfully reached orbit.
@isaraerospace, the German space company, launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Spaceport in Norway today.
We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has officially launched and is heading to its forever home at L2!
Over the next three months, the observatory will perform final checks and power its instruments before revealing its first images by early 2027.
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