Timeline of #SpaceExploration

• 📆 1610 discovery 🔭 of the Galilean #moons 🪐 (of #Jupiter) 🇮🇹
• 📆 1944 First man-made object in #space 🇩🇪
• 📆 1949 First #mammal in #space 🇺🇸
• 📆 1959 First #spacecraft to reach the #Moon 🇷🇺
• 📆 1989 First #astrometric #satellite 🇪🇺
• 📆 2001 First #laser #satellite link 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
• 📆 2010 First #sample return from an #asteroid 🇯🇵
• 📆 2015 First #propulsive landing of an #orbital #rocket 🚀
• 📆 2022 First #asteroid ☄️ deflected by a #spacecraft 🇺🇸

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration

Picture : #Oumuamua 2017 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_20171025-16_gif.gif

#ScienceDirect 📆 2006 : The magneto-plasma sail produces the #propulsive force due to the interaction between the artificial #magnetic 🧲 #field around the #spacecraft inflated by the plasma and the #SolarWind erupted from the #Sun ☀️ with a speed of 300–800 km/s https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576505002365

#Magnetic sail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_sail

#MagneticPropulsion #SpacecraftPropulsion