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The European Space Agency’s Vega rocket, which contains the agency’s Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, or IXV, is poised for liftoff this Wednesday.
Several dozen gendarmes are stationed near Clairvaux Abbey, in the Aube region of north-eastern France, for the start of the Olympic torch relay test, four months before the Paris 2024 Games. IMAGES
SpaceX carries out the third test launch of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket that is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. Lift-off from the company's base in southeast Texas came around 8:25 am local time (1325 GMT) and was carried on a webcast viewed by more than 1.5 million people. IMAGES
SpaceX's 'Starship' rocket, the largest ever built, takes off from the space company's Texas launch site. CEO Elon Musk hopes the ship will one day colonize Mars and NASA is awaiting a modified version to land humans on the Moon. The first test in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico. IMAGES
Boats parade along the Seine for technical tests, 365 days before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. IMAGES
Images released by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 13, 2023 show the test-fire of its new intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. The report from state-run KCNA news agency said the Hwasong-18 -- a new type of purportedly solid-fuel ballistic missile that has reportedly only been fired by the North once before, in April -- flew 1,001 kilometres at a maximum altitude of 6,648 km before splashing into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan. IMAGES