PIX4604533: Fusees Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA - Illustration - The Ariane 5 ES ATV and ECA rockets - Illustration - Artist view of the Ariane 5 ES ATV rocket, on the left, compare to the Ariane 5 ECA rocket, on the right. Artist's impression of the Ariane 5 ES ATV (left) with the Ariane 5 ECA (right) / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604727: Soyuz FG - Fregat - 04 - 2005 - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket during its transfer from the integration building to the Baikonour fire pitch, 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 is transferred to 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. The Soyuz spacecraft is enclosed in the white protective fairing / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604900: 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
PIX4604931: Launch of Explorer 1 - First American satellite - Launch of Explorer 1 satellite, place on Juno 1 launcher (Jupiter rocket - C modified), February 1, 1958. This satellite was the first artificial satellite launched by Americans. He confirmed the presence of a radiation belt around the Earth, the belt of Van Allen / Bridgeman Images