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November 16, 2020
On November 16, 2020, a Vega rocket carrying SEOSat-Ingenio and TARANIS fails after liftoff. The year's #1 song was "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd.
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Featured · November 16, 2020
A Vega rocket carrying SEOSat-Ingenio and TARANIS fails after liftoff.
Vega was a European expendable small-lift launch vehicle developed by Avio and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Designed to carry payloads between 300 and 2,500 kilograms into low Earth and polar orbits, Vega served primarily scientific and Earth observation missions.
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The year in brief
2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
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On November 16, 2020
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2020 A Vega rocket carrying SEOSat-Ingenio and TARANIS fails after liftoff. European Space Agency launch system
Vega was a European expendable small-lift launch vehicle developed by Avio and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Designed to carry payloads between 300 and 2,500 kilograms into low Earth and polar orbits, Vega served primarily scientific and Earth observation missions.
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Died on November 16, 2020
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Other moments from 2020
- April 19 A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.
- April 2 COVID-19 pandemic: The total number of confirmed cases reach one million.
- April 20 For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
- April 22 Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
- April 4 China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.
- April 7 COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.
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