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Added on the 21/12/2022 12:11:08 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images show the launch of a Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou in French Guiana. The mission is the 18th Vega mission and the first since a failed Vega launch in November, in which satellites for France and Spain were lost. IMAGES
The Vega rocket launches from Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket has two satellites on board for observing the Earth and natural phenomena, according to the video broadcast of the launch. IMAGES
Russian, American and Canadian astronauts blast off for the first manned Soyuz mission since a frightening failed launch in October. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency take off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission aboard the International Space Station. IMAGES of the launch
The company flag flies at full mast in front of Goodyear's European headquarters in Machelen, Belgium as investigators searched three European sites belonging to the American tyre giant, according to French prosecutors. The investigation forms part of an involuntary homicides probe into crashes caused by burst truck tyres. IMAGES of Goodyear's European headquarters
French President Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris to commemorate the Victory of 8 May 1945 -- the date of the German surrender in WWII. IMAGES