FLO4642656: Mimosa fragrant - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Sweet thorn bush, Acacia karroo - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642697: Cloves or cloves - Lithography by F. Guimpel, extracted from medical botany by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Clove spice, Syzygium aromatium - / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642742: A satellite is directed to a cemetery orbit - Reorbiting a spacecraft into a graveyard orbit - Artist's view of a satellite in geostationary orbit at the end of the mission directs to a cemetery orbit. In order to prevent possible collisions, the satellite must be placed 300 km above its initial orbit. In order to eliminate collision risk, GEO satellites should be moved out of the geostationary ring at the end of their mission. It is recommended that their orbit should be raised by about 300 km, which is considered a safe distance to avoid future interference with active GEO spacecraft / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642769: Space Debris: Meteosat type satellite - Space debris: Meteosat satellite - Artist's view of a Meteosat satellite when it is put into orbit. As with many satellites, orbit operations cause new space debris (ejection of covers, bolts...); in view of the dangerous increase in space debris, it is imperative to design cleaner satellites today (here a cover remains attached to the satellite). A measure against space debris is minimizing the number of objects released during spacecraft operations. Typical “” mission - related objects”” (MRO) include adapters used between two satellites in a dual launch, telescope covers, bolts, cast off yo - yo spinners, etc. Spacecraft designers and operators must design missions so that objects stay attached to the spacecraft and do not become additional space debris / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642790: Jujubier - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicine by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Jujube or Chinese date, Zizyphus vulgaris - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642792: Geostationary orbit and polar orbit - Geostationary orbit and polar orbi / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642798: Syncom IV Satellite - View of Syncom IV Satellite (Leasat) from Space Shuttle Discovery in April 1985 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642821: Carline acaule or Cardabelle (gardabelle) - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicale by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Dwarf carline thistle, Carlina acaulis - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642835: Common castor - Lithograph by F. Guimpel, extracted from botanical medicine by Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), Berlin, 1822 - Castor oil plant, Ricinus communis - Handcoloured copperplate by F. Guimpel from Dr. F. G. Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642836: Intelsat telecommunication satellite 6 - Intelsat telecommunication satellite 6 - Deployment of the Intelsat VI satellite seen from the shuttle Endeavour on 16 May 1992. Equipped with a new propulsion system, this satellite will join its geosynchronous orbit / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642853: Intelsat satellite 6 - Intelsat VI satellite - Recoveration of the Intelsat VI satellite by shuttle Endeavour in May 1992. From left to right are astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers, and Pierre J. Thuot. Three STS - 49 crewmembers hold onto the 4.5 - ton Intelsat VI satellite in May 1992 after a six - handed “” capture””” was made minutes earlier. Left to right are astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Thomas D. Akers and Pierre J. Thuot. Thuot stands on the end of the Canadarm, which was instrumental as a mobile working platform in the capture / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642855: Flax grows. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Common flax or linseed, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642866: Symphony communication satellite - 2 - Symphony satellite communication - 2. Artwork - Artist's view of the Symphony Satellite - 2 in orbit around the Earth. Symphonie satellites are the first telecommunications satellites made in France and Europe. Symphonie-2 was launched on 27 August 1975 and its mission ended in 1985. Symphony satellites are the first european communication satellites. Symphony - 2 was launched in 1975 and its mission ended in 1985 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642881: Communications satellite Telecom-1C - Satellite communication Telecom-1C. Artwork - Artist's view of the French satellite Telecom - 1C in orbit around the Earth. The satellite was launched on 11 March 1988 and its mission ended in 1996. English satellite Telecom - 1C was launched on March 11 1988 and its mission ended in 1996 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642882: White lilies. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Madonna lily, Lilium peregrinum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642908: Dragon head. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Dragon's head, Dracocephalum moldavica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642921: Satellite Artemis - Satellite Artemis - Artist's view of the European satellite Artemis (Advanced Relay and Technology Mission). Communication and relay satellite for other satellites, it was launched in July 2001 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642944: Apic lavender. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Spike lavender, Lavandula latifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642978: Compendial peony. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Crimson flowered peony with leaves, seeds, roots. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4642980: Artist's view of the European satellite of telecommunication SMALLSAT / Bridgeman Images

FLO4642988: Hemp plant grows. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Cannabis plant, Cannabis sativa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4643003: Donkey cucumber. Coloured copper engraving, in Botanique Medicinale (published in Berlin, Germany, 1822) by Doctor Friedrich Gottlob Haynes (1763-1832), German botanist and pharmacist. Squirting cucumber, Mormodica elaterium, Ecballium elaterium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's “” Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebrauchilchen Gewachse”” (Medical Botany), Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and, from 1814, professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4643031: Galileo satellites - Illustration - Artist's view of the European satellite network Galileo consists of 30 satellites at about 24,000 km of altitude (27 operationals, 3 reserve). This satellite positioning system is expected to be operational in 2011 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4643045: White-tailed sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla (Erne, Aquila albicilla). Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by William Hayes and his daughter M (Matilda) from Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds from the Menagery of Osterly Park, London: Bulmer, 1794., Hayes, William (1735-1802) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4644541: Pink moss, Rosa muscosa. Handcoloured engraving by James Andrews for John Stevens Henslow's “Bouquet des Souvenirs,” London, 1840. Henslow (1796 ~ 1861) was educated at Cambridge University, and returned to teach there, becoming Chair of Mineralogy in 1822 and Chair of Botany in 1825. His lectures were attended by a young Charles Darwin. James Andrews was a talented botanical artist who squandered his talents on gift books. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644547: Satellite Meteosat in test in Cannes - A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks - View of a first generation Meteosat satellite in an Aerospatiale building in Cannes. A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks at Aerospace's satellite plant in Cannes, on the English Riviera / Bridgeman Images

FLO4644610: Little dragonfish, Eurypegasus draconis, Pegase dragon, and American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, Polyodon leaf. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Bocour, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4644611: Ocean sunfish, Moon fish or Mole, Mola mola. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Lemaire, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644635: Satellite Orbiting Carbon Observatory - Artist's concept of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - Artist's view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite orbiting Earth. This satellite, scheduled to launch in early 2009, will be dedicated exclusively to the study of carbon dioxide on Earth. The mission, scheduled to launch in early 2009, will be the first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main human - produced driver of climate change. It will provide the first global picture of the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide and the places where this important greenhouse gas is stored. Such information will improve global carbon cycle models as well as forecasts of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and of how our climate may change in the future / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644636: Satellite MSG - 2 - Meteosat 9 - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 2 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 9, in orbit around the Earth, seen here in infrared. Launched on 21 December 2005, it is a geostationary satellite set 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644645: Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 1 (Meteosat Second Generation, MSG) or Meteosat 8, in orbit around the Earth. Launched on August 28, 2002, it is a geostationary satellite located 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared. Artist's view of Meteosat Second Generation (MSG). Satellite observations from space contribute to better weather forecasts as only satellites can observe weather patterns on a global scale, including the Atlantic Ocean over which most of Europe's weather originates / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644648: Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Anaglyph - Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Anaglyph - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 1 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 8, in orbit around the Earth. Launched on August 28, 2002, it is a geostationary satellite located 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared. Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), is equipped with an extremely sophisticated imaging radiometer that can separate the incoming radiation into 12 (3 with the current Meteosat) different spectral bands. Each section, four of them in the visible and eight in the thermal infrared, delivers different information. They vary from visible images of weather systems during the day to cloud temperature at night; from surface temperature and water vapour to trace gas concentrations and dust particles in the atmosphere. MSG will deliver about twenty times as much information as its predecessor Meteosat, resulting in much more accurate short and medium - range forecasts / Bridgeman Images

PIX4644660: Artist's view of the Japanese meteorological satellite GMS - 1 (Himawari - 1). - Artist's view of the Japanese meteorological satellite GMS - 1 (Himawari - 1). - Artist's view of the Japanese meteorological satellite GMS - 1 (Himawari - 1). This satellite was launched in 1977 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4644715: Little filesnake, band acrochord, Acrochordus granulatus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Boquet junior, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4644719: Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus. Poisonous snake. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Turcaty, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4644725: Ring-necked spitting cobra, vipere haemachate, Hemachatus haemachatus, and Martinique lancehead, trigonocephale spearhead (spearhead), Bothrops lanceolatus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images