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Twitter and Instagram reacts to Jeff Bezos' spaceflight with hilarious memes

On Tuesday, Earth's wealthiest person Jeff Bezos and a crew of three others blasted off and spent a mere three minutes in space.

PSLV-C51 launch on 28 Feb: ISRO to launch Amazonia-1, 20 commercial satellites via NSIL

The Brazillian satellite Amazonia 1 is NewSpace India Limited's (NSIL) first commercial launch mission.

ISRO successfully launches its 42nd communication satellite aboard PSLV rocket

The CMS-01 satellite is replacing the ageing GSAT-12 satellite that was launched 15 July, 2011, with a mission life of seven years but ended up working for nine years

NASA-ESA launch Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite to monitor the oceans

Both the satellites are designed to last for five-and-a-half years but could provide data for far longer.

China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission: Science objectives, instruments on the first-of-its-kind tech demo to the Red Planet

If successful,Tianwen-1 will be signified as a major technical breakthrough in interplanetary mission technology.

China launches first Tianwen-1 orbiter-lander-rover mission to Mars today; CNSA yet to confirm success

The launch is an open secret, with CNSA not particularly hiding the relevant information but not being very forthcoming with it either.

UAE's first interplanetary mission launches on 20 July – 'Hope' to be ninth active mission on Mars

The launch had been delayed on two occasions due to bad weather in Japan - n 15 July at 2.21 am IST and on Friday, 17 July at 2.13 am IST.

Israel launches spy satellite, Ofek 16, to keep a better eye on its enemies

The Defense Ministry called Ofek 16 "an electro-optical reconnaissance satellite with advanced capabilities."

MOMO-5, a rocket by private Japanese firm fails to reach space, faces malfunction

Due to some malfunction when it reached the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure, the rocket could not launch and crashed into the Pacific Ocean.

ISRO congratulates NASA, SpaceX on a job well done on the 'historic' launch of US astronauts to ISS

This launch marked the first time a privately built and owned spacecraft carried NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.