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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
China's Shenzhou-18 mission takes off from a launch centre in Jiuquan, in the northern Gansu province, carrying three astronauts to the country's Tiangong space station. The three are set to replace the space station's current crew and will remain in orbit around the Earth for six months. IMAGES
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hails the EU parliament's adoption of a contentious asylum policy reform as a "huge achievement for Europe". The parliament's main political groups overcame opposition from far-right and far-left parties to pass the new migration and asylum pact -- a sweeping reform nearly a decade in the making. SOUNDBITE