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PIX4604129: Fusee Ariane V 02/05 - Fusee Ariane V ECA on its firing pad with two satellites on board: XTAR - EUR and Sloshsat - FLEVO. 12//02/2005 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604164: Fusee Ariane 5 ECA 02/2005 - Ariane 5 ECA, V164 is ready for liftoff 02/2005 - Fusee Ariane V ECA on its firing pad with two satellites: XTAR - EUR and Sloshsat - FLEVO as well as a mock-up of the satellite that will not be deployed (Maqsat - B2) 12/02/2005. The second Ariane 5 ECA launcher is readied for liftoff from the Ariane Launch Complex no.3 (ELA - 3) of the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's space port, on February 12, 2005. On this flight (V164), two satellites were lofted to orbit: XTAR - EUR, a secured communication satellite, and ESA's Sloshsat - FLEVO experimental satellite to investigate propellant sloshing in orbiting spacecraft. An instrumented satellite mock - up, MaqSat B2, was also flown but not released to reduce orbital debris / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604323: Fusee Ariane 5 ECA - 07/2009 - Ariane 5 ECA V189 - 07/2009 - The Ariane 5 ECA rocket with TerreStar telecommunication satellite on board, before it was decolished on 1 July 2009. Ariane 5 ECA V189 on launch pad during launch campaign, at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport in English Guiana. The Ariane 5 ECA of flight V189 will carry the TerreStar 1 telecommunications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604447: Artist's view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket - Artist's view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket designed to place in low orbit the automatic cargo ship ATV that will supply the international space station. ATV is seen in launch position in the rocket cap / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604523: Fusee Ariane V - Illustration - The Ariane V rocket - Illustration - Decollage of the Ariane 5 ECA rocket in Kourou. Artist's impression of the Ariane V ECA rocket liftoff / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604559: The European launch vehicle Vega - Illustration - European Vega Launcher - Illustration - Vega is a European Space Agency (ESA) launcher capable of placing a payload of up to 2 tonnes in low orbit. It is expected that it will join from 2010 the range of launchers of the space agency, which includes launchers Soyuz and Ariane. Under development since 1998, the Vega launcher is an all - solid three - stage vehicle with a liquid - fuelled injection module, based on proven technologies from Ariane 5 booster stages and Fiatavio's Zefiro solid rocket motor. Vega will be marketed and operated by Arianespace, in parallel to Ariane 5. Vega is designed to loft single or multiple payloads to orbits up to 1,500 km in altitude. Its reference payload capability is about 1,500 kg to a circular 500 - km - high Sun - synchronous orbit but it can also loft satellites from 300 kg to more than 2 metric tons, as well as piggyback microsatellites of less than 100 kg each. This range of performance covers the needs for multiple applications in the fields of remote sensing, environmental monitoring, Earth science, space science, fundamental science as well as research and technology for future space applications and systems / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604568: The European launch vehicle Vega - Illustration - European Vega Launcher - Illustration - Vega is a European Space Agency (ESA) launcher capable of placing a payload of up to 2 tonnes in low orbit. It is expected that it will join from 2010 the range of launchers of the space agency, which includes launchers Soyuz and Ariane. Under development since 1998, the Vega launcher is an all - solid three - stage vehicle with a liquid - fuelled injection module, based on proven technologies from Ariane 5 booster stages and Fiatavio's Zefiro solid rocket motor. Vega will be marketed and operated by Arianespace, in parallel to Ariane 5. Vega is designed to loft single or multiple payloads to orbits up to 1,500 km in altitude. Its reference payload capability is about 1,500 kg to a circular 500 - km - high Sun - synchronous orbit but it can also loft satellites from 300 kg to more than 2 metric tons, as well as piggyback microsatellites of less than 100 kg each. This range of performance covers the needs for multiple applications in the fields of remote sensing, environmental monitoring, Earth science, space science, fundamental science as well as research and technology for future space applications and systems / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604590: The Soyuz launcher a Kourou - 2011 - First Soyuz liftoff in French Guiana - The Soyuz rocket on its fire pitch at the Guyanese Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, October 16, 2011. VS01 is the first flight of the Russian Soyuz rocket from Kourou in Guyana. The launch took place on October 21, 2011. Soyuz VS01, the first Soyuz flight from Europe's Spaceport in English Guiana, was transferred to the launch zone on 14 October 2011. The vehicle was rolled out horizontally on its erector from the preparation building to the launch zone and then raised into the vertical position. The 'Upper Composite', comprising the Fregat upper stage, payload and fairing, was also transferred and added onto the vehicle from above, completing the very first Soyuz on its launch pad at Europe's Spaceport. Soyuz VS01 has lifted off on 21 October 2011. The rocket carried the first two satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system into orbit / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604601: Launch of the Soyuz rocket in Kourou - 2011 - First Soyuz liftoff in French Guiana - Launch of the Soyuz rocket at the Guyanese Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou, 21 October 2011. VS01 is the first flight of the Russian Soyuz rocket from Kourou in Guyana. 21 October 2011: Soyuz lifts off for the first time from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana carrying the first two Galileo In - Orbit Validation satellites / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604624: Launch of the Soyuz rocket in Kourou - 2011 - First Soyuz liftoff in French Guiana - Launch of the Soyuz rocket at the Guyanese Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou, 21 October 2011. VS01 is the first flight of the Russian Soyuz rocket from Kourou in Guyana. 21 October 2011: Soyuz lifts off for the first time from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana carrying the first two Galileo In - Orbit Validation satellites / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604684: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - Venus Express Probe - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket during its transfer from the integration building to fire pitch No. 31 of Baikonour, Kazakhstan. This rocket was launched on 9 November 2005, successfully placing the European Venus Express probe in orbit. The fully integrated Soyuz FG - Fregat vehicle carrying ESA's Venus Express probe, on its erector - transporter wagon, arrives at its pad on launch complex no.31, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, for four days of pre - launch check out and countdown rehearsals before the flight. The pad's umbilical mast and support jaws are visible in the background. The lift - off occurred at 04:33 CET (03:33 UT) on November 9, 2005, and Venus Express was successfully launched on a solar orbit towards Venus / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604688: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - Venus Express Probe - View of the Soyuz FG rocket - Fregat erigee on fire pitch No. 31 of Baikonour, Kazakhstan, November 4, 2005. This rocket was launched on 9 November 2005, successfully placing the European Venus Express probe in orbit. The fully integrated Soyuz FG - Fregat vehicle carrying ESA's Venus Express probe, is erected on its pad at launch complex no.31, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, on November 4, 2005. As it reaches its vertical position, the launcher is secured by four retractable jaws. It will now undergo four days of pre - launch check out and countdown rehearsals before the flight. The lift - off occurred at 04:33 CET (03:33 UT) on November 9, and Venus Express was successfully launched on a solar orbit towards Venus / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604696: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - Venus Express Probe - Decollage of the Soyuz FG rocket - Fregat in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, November 9, 2005. This rocket successfully places the European Venus Express probe in orbit. The Soyuz FG - Fregat launch vehicle carrying ESA's Venus Express probe lifts off from launch complex no.31, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, at 04:33 CET (03:33 UT) on November 9, 2005. The vehicle successfully injected Venus Express onto a solar orbit towards Venus / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604710: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - 10/2003 - Soyuz FG launcher transfer 10/2003 - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket during its transfer from the integration building to the Baikonour fire pitch, Kazakhstan, 16 October 2003. The rocket decolished on 18 October 2003, taking a crew of three men aboard the Soyuz TMA-3 capsule to reach the International Space Station two days later. The Soyuz FG launch vehicle carrying the Soyuz TMA - 3 spacecraft is transferred to the launch pad at the Baikonour cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on October 16, 2003, in preparation for the Cervantes mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, from Spain. Pedro Duque was launched into space onboard Soyuz TMA - 3 on October 18, with Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri and British - born NASA astronaut Michael Foale. Soyuz TMA - 3 successfully docked with the ISS two days later / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604733: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - 04 - 2005 - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, April 13, 2005. This rocket decolished on 15 April 2005, taking a crew of three men aboard the Soyuz TMA capsule to reach the international space station two days later. The Soyuz FG launcher carrying the Soyuz TMA - 6 spacecraft has just been raised into vertical position on launch pad 1/5 at the Baikonour Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early in the morning of April 13, 2005, two days before its lift - off for the Eneide mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, from Italy / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604871: Decolving Proton rocket 10/02 - Decolving the Proton rocket carrying the Integral satellite. 17/10/2002 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604916: Launch of the Dnepr - Dnepr rocket launch - Launch of the Cryosat - 2 satellite on board a Dnepr rocket, 8 April 2010. Successful launch for ESA's CryoSat - 2 ice satellite Europe's first mission dedicated to studying the Earth's ice was launched on April 8 2010 from Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit, CryoSat - 2 will send back data leading to new insights into how ice is responding to climate change and the role it plays in our 'Earth system'. The CryoSat - 2 satellite was launched at 15:57 CEST (13:57 UTC) on a Dnepr rocket provided by the International Space Company Kosmotras from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The signal confirming that it had separated from the launcher came 17 minutes later from the Malindi ground station in Kenya / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604933: Exploitation of Athena 1 09/01 - Decolation of the Athena 1 rocket carrying four satellites: PicoSat, PCSat, Sapphire and Starshine 3. Kodiak Island, Alaska. 29/09/2001 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604993: Launch of the Juno probe by an Atlas V 08/2011 - Juno launch by an Atlas V rocket - 08/2011 - Decolving the Atlas V rocket carrying the Juno probe. 5 August 2011. Frost breaks away from the first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V - 551 launch vehicle carrying Nasa's Juno planetary probe as it lifts off the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The frost forms when the stage is filled with its supercold liquid oxygen fuel. Liftoff was at 12:25 p.m. EDT Aug. 5. The solar - powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605110: Delta II rocket decolving 08/01 - Delta II rocket carrying the Genesis probe. 08/08/2001 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605138: Delta II rocket decolling - DAWN probe - 09 - 2007 - Dawn spacecraft launch - 09 - 2007 - Delta II rocket decolving on 27 September 2007 carrying the DAWN probe destined for the study of the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. September 27, 2007. The Delta II rocket carrying Nasa's Dawn spacecraft rises from the smoke and fire on the launch pad to begin its 1.7 - billion - mile journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids. Liftoff was at 7:34 a.m. EDT from Pad 17 - B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, during a single mission. It is also NASA's first purely scientific mission powered by three solar electric ion propulsion engine / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605150: Delta II rocket decolling - DAWN probe - 09 - 2007 - Dawn spacecraft launch - 09 - 2007 - Delta II rocket decolving on 27 September 2007 carrying the DAWN probe destined for the study of the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. September 27, 2007. The Delta II rocket carrying Nasa's Dawn spacecraft begin its 1.7 - billion - mile journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids. Liftoff was at 7:34 a.m. EDT from Pad 17 - B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit two planetary bodies, asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres, during a single mission. It is also NASA's first purely scientific mission powered by three solar electric ion propulsion engine / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605270: Astronaut training in parabolic flight - Astronaut training in zero - G - Astronaut Andre Kuipers is training in weightlessness aboard a Russian plane in the Star City, in preparation for his stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2004. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, from The Netherlands, enjoys weightlessness inside a Russian aircraft performing a parabolic flight at the Gagarin Training Center, also known as Zviezdny Gorodok (“Star City”), near Moscow, as part of his preparation for the DELTA mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2004. Andre Kuipers was launched into space onboard Soyuz TMA - 4 on April 19 with Russian mission commander Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke. The spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS two days later. Andre Kuipers then spent eight and a half days onboard the orbital outpost and carried out an extensive experiment programme in the fields of life sciences including physiology, biology and microbiology. His programme also included some physical science, Earth observation and technology experiments as well as education activities. He returned to Earth on April 30 onboard Soyuz TMA - 3 with the former ISS permanent crew, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Kaleri and British - born NASA astronaut Michael Foale, who were replaced by Padalka and Fincke / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605877: The JIMO probe - Artist view - The JIMO probe - Artist view - Artist view of the JIMO probe around a Jupiter satellite. The JIMO probe has remained a project never funded. The aim of this mission was to study Jupiter's satellites to confirm the presence of water under the ice of the Europe, Ganymede and Callisto satellites. This probe was to be propelled by an ion motor powered by a nuclear reactor. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606041: Cassini - Huygens en route to Titan - The Cassini - Huygens probe above Titan's atmosphere - Artist's view of the Cassini probe before the separation of the European Huygens module on 25 December 2004. Huygens landed on the Titan satellite on 14 January 2005. The Cassini-Huygens probe was launched on 15 October 1997 and has been placed in orbit around Saturn since 1 July 2004. This artist's conception of the Cassini orbiter shows the Huygens probe before separation to enter Titan's atmosphere. After separation, the probe drifts for about three weeks until reaching its destination. Equipped with a variety of scientific sensors, the Huygens probe will spend 2 - 2.5 hours descending through Titan's dense, murky atmosphere of nitrogen and carbon - based molecules, beaming its findings to the distant Cassini orbiter overhead. The probe could continue to relay information for up to 30 minutes after it lands on Titan's frigid surface, after which the orbiter passes beneath the horizon as seen from the probe / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606125: SMART Probe - 1 - Artist View - SMART Probe - 1 - Artist View - SMART - 1 (Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology) is a European probe that maps the Moon and tests new technologies such as ion propulsion. The mission took place from 27 September 2003 to 3 September 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606242: Venus Express Probe leaves Earth orbit - Venus Express spacecraft leaving Earth orbit - The European Venus Express probe was launched on 9 November 2005 by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket and placed in orbit around Venus on 11 April 2006. The european spacecraft Venus Express has been launched from Baikonur in november 2005 by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket and reaches the planet Venus on april 11 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606253: The Venus Express Probe en route to Venus - Venus Express spacecraft en route to Venus - The European Venus Express probe was launched on 9 November 2005 by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket and placed in orbit around Venus on 11 April 2006. The european spacecraft Venus Express has been launched from Baikonur in november 2005 by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket and reaches the planet Venus on april 11 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606290: Mercury Planet Orbiter orbit around Mercury - Bepicolombo will be a mission to explore the planet Mercury, carried out jointly by the Japanese Space Agency and the European Space Agency. Its launch is scheduled for 2013, reaching Mercure in 2019. Two probes form the Bepicolombo mission, the Mercury Planet Orbiter (DFO), which will perform a complete mapping of the surface of Mercury, and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), which will study the Mercurian magnetosphere. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606351: Probe Mars 3 - Mars 3 spacecraft - The landing gear of the Mars-3 probe was the first aircraft to land intact on Mars soil on December 2, 1971. Unfortunately, due to a heavy dust storm, it only operated for 20 seconds. The Soviet Mars 3 lander separates from its mother craft above Mars. The timing is unfortunate as the planet is experiencing a global dust storm. March - 3 was launched to Mars on May 28, 1971. On December 2, 1971 it's descent capsule made a soft landing on the surface of Mars. This mission was not successful, because of a dust storm on the Mars surface / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606616: Mars Express - Artist's View - Mars Express artist's view - The European Mars Express probe was launched on June 2, 2003 and began its observations in March early 2004. Mars Express left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003 when the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty - six months. The european spaceprobe began its March observations in 2004 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606645: Mars Express - Artist's View - Mars Express artist's view - The European Mars Express probe was launched on June 2, 2003 and began its observations in March early 2004. Mars Express left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003 when the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty - six months. The european spaceprobe began its March observations in 2004 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4606649: Mars Express - Artist's View - Mars Express artist's view - The European Mars Express probe was launched on June 2, 2003 and began its observations in March early 2004. Mars Express left Earth for Mars on 2 June 2003 when the positions of the two planets made for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty - six months. The european spaceprobe began its March observations in 2004 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4585997: Astronomical clock of the 16th century - Detail - Lyon - Astronomical clock - 16th century - Lyon - France - 69 - Lyon - Cathedrale Saint Jean Baptiste. Detail of the astronomical clock 16th century: polychrome wood sculpture, angel automaton from the top of the clock. One of the automatons, an angel. Detail of Astronomical clock - 16th century by Hugues Levet. Saint Jean Baptiste cathedral, Lyon, France / Bridgeman Images