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Tianwen 1 | Long March 5

It's that season! With a previous United Arab Emirates launch to Mars and NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission, China has decided to join the party! We have a unique window of opportunity where the orbits of Earth and Mars line up perfectly! Tianwen 1 consists of an orbiter, lander and rover. After a previous failed attempt, this will mark China's first time attempting to land on Mars! It will also be the first non US-American or Soviet/Russian rover on the surface of Mars.
An Ariane 5 rocket launching the JSAT-17 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellites. The rocket's bright plume darkens the sky, while the orange flames shooting out of the white rocket's engines engulf the launch pad.
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JCSAT-17 & GEO-KOMPSAT-2B | Ariane 5 ECA

Arianespace SA is a launch provider company,  which is majority-owned by its parent company “ArianeGroup”, a combined undertaking between Airbus and the French group Safran. For this mission, in particular, Arianespace is getting paid by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)  and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation to put both of their satellites into an orbit only 35,786 km (22,236 miles).
altas 5 411 fire rocket launch pad smoke vapor lightening towers
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Solar Orbiter | Atlas V 411

We are going back to our star!! Solar Orbiter is a spacecraft build by the European Space Agency to study the inner heliosphere and its overall effects on solar radiation. How's it gonna get there? The launch provider, United Launch Alliance (ULA) has this job. Their mighty Atlas V rocket will soar into the Floridian skies propelling Solar Orbiter to on its 3.5 year journey to the Sun.