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PIX4604567: European launchers - Illustration - European launch vehicles family in 2009 - Illustration - Artist's view of the various fusees used by the European Space Agency and launches from the Guyanese Space Centre. From left to right, the Vega launcher, Soyuz - ST, Ariane 5 ES ATV and Ariane 5 ECA. Artist view of the family of launchers to be operated on behalf of ESA from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport, in Kourou, English Guiana. From left to right: Vega, ESA's new small launcher, 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. Soyuz - ST, the improved version of Russia's Soyuz workhorse launcher with a new digital avionics and a wider, Ariane 4 - type payload fairing. A new launch pad is being built in the CSG for Soyuz vehicles. Ariane 5 ES, another version of the Ariane 5E featuring a restartable version of Ariane 5G's storable propellant upper stage. One of its primary payloads is the Autonomous Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for resupply and reboost missions to the International Space Station. Ariane 5 ECA, the most powerful version of the Ariane 5E, an evolution of the generic Ariane 5 launcher with an increased propellant load in its solid booster stages and an improved capacity for the liquid oxygen tank of its cryogenic core stage to feed its new Vulcain 2 main engine. The Ariane 5 ECA was first launched on December 11, 2002. Its payload capacity to geostationary transfer orbit reaches 10 metric tons / Bridgeman Images
PIX4630360: The Kuiper Belt - Illustration - The Kuiper Belt is an area beyond the orbit of Neptune with small ice bodies. The orbits of planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are represented / Bridgeman Images
PIX4605506: E.DEORBIT: a satellite to clean up space - E.Deorbit grabbing debris - Artist view of the satellite e.deorbit (right) catching a satellite with a net to take it to consume in the Earth's atmosphere. e.Deorbit is a European mission project that if approved in 2019 will start in 2024. This satellite will be the first to clean up space debris. He would recapture the larger objects with his articulated arm or a net, before discharging them into the atmosphere, or they would be destroyed. ESA's proposed e.Deorbit mission, shown right, using a net to catch a derelict satellite - the baseline capture method for what would be the world's first active space debris removal mission, in 2024. The mission would first rendezvous with a large, drifting ESA satellite, then capture and secure it safely ahead of steering the combination down for a controlled burn-up in the atmosphere. As well as the baselined robot arm, additional capture technologies are being investigated, including a net and harpon. In any case, grappling the derelict satellite would have to be done in a very rapid and precise manner to prevent E.Deorbit and its target rebounding apart. The mission, being developed through ESA's Clean Space initiative - tasked with safeguarding terrestrial and orbital environments - will be proposed for final agreement at ESA's next Council at Ministerial Level, in 2019. It will place European industry at the forefront of the world's active debris removal efforts and multipurpose space tugs / Bridgeman Images
GIE4835469: Portrait of Toni Morrison (born 1931), American novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1993. / Bridgeman Images
MME4805283: GEORG RATZINGER, brother of JOSEPH RATZINGER (Pope Benedict XVI), at home. Regensburg (D), 21 April 2005 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
ETE4839323: D Day: jeeps, trucks and other warfare equipment are barked on Utah beach, 1944 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
GIE4828919: Portrait of Lili Brik (1891-1978) and Vladimir Maiakovsky (Majakovskij or Maiakovsky) (1893-1930) ca. 1915 Photography / Bridgeman Images
SOB4828942: 22 Mar 1979, Northeast Harbor, Maine, USA - English Novelist and Historian Marguerite Yourcenar / Bridgeman Images
SOB4822738: Portrait of Charles Bukowski, September 9, 1978, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA / Bridgeman Images
MME4786267: Russian director Andrei Tarkowsky, member of the jury, Venice Lido, Venice Film Festival, 1982 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
ETE4902350: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Colmar (Alsace) around 1 February 1945: Infantrymen of the 3rd DI of the 21st US Armee Corps supported by a Tank Destroyer of the 5th French DB on the outskirts of the city / Bridgeman Images
ETE4924372: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Henderson Field Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands) Pacific early 1943: “Seabees” (soldiers of the Genie of the US Navy) are working on the expansion of the strip.” / Bridgeman Images
YAC4921503: Portrait of the professor of public law and writer frederic Rouvillois (Portrait of French writer and professor Frederic Rouvillois), 2014 Photography / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4870146: The Wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip, 20th November, 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
GIE4878111: Portrait of Cristina Campo (1923-1977), Italian writer. Private photo. Giovannetti collection. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4675717: Ardipithecus ramidus - Reconstitution of Ardipithecus ramidus, a species faint from the order of Primates and probably from the family Hominides. He lived about 4.4 million years ago at the lower Pliocene. Portrait of a Ardipithecus ramidus. This restoration, based on the newly described Ethiopian specimen nicknamed “” Ardi””, illustrates a basal hominid that resides near the common ancestor of apes and humans. It lived about 4.4 million years ago during the early Pliocene / Bridgeman Images
PIX4677346: Lava flow on volcano Pacaya - Guatemala - Lava flow on volcano Pacaya - Guatemala - Lava flow on volcano Pacaya in Guatemala. In the background the volcanoes Agua and Fuego (in the background). Lava flow on volcano Pacaya in Guatemala. In background are volcanoes Agua and Fuego / Bridgeman Images
PIX4677391: The lava dome Santiaguito active -Guatemala - Santiaguito lava dome - Guatemala - The eruption of the Santiaguito, the active lava dome (or volcanic dome) of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. January 2009. Volcanic eruption at lava dome (or volcanic dome) of Santiaguito, an active part of volcano Santa Maria in Guatemala. January 2009 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4677443: The lava dome Santiaguito active -Guatemala - Santiaguito lava dome - Guatemala - The eruption of the Santiaguito, the active lava dome (or volcanic dome) of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala. January 2009. Volcanic eruption at lava dome (or volcanic dome) of Santiaguito, an active part of volcano Santa Maria in Guatemala. January 2009 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4677444: The lava dome of the Soufriere-Ile de Montserrat - Soufriere hills lava dome - Montserrat - The lava dome (or volcanic dome) of the volcano of the Soufriere in activity seen from the valley of the river Tar. Montserrat Island. Active Soufriere Hills lava dome (or volcanic dome) seen from Tar river valley. Montserrat / Bridgeman Images