Space and Astronomy

37 records

01 / Spaceflight 1,110 days Most time in space Oleg Kononenko · International Space Station See record ↗
02 / Spaceflight 11,143 satellites Largest satellite constellation Starlink, operated by SpaceX · Low Earth orbit around Earth See record ↗
03 / Rockets and Spacecraft 165 launches Most launches by a single rocket model in a year SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 · Worldwide launch sites See record ↗
04 / Rockets and Spacecraft 143 satellites Most satellites launched on a single rocket SpaceX · Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA See record ↗
05 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 1,640 ft Largest single-dish radio telescope FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) · Pingtang County, Guizhou, China See record ↗
06 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 583 miles Largest object in the asteroid belt Ceres · Asteroid belt See record ↗
07 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 34 ft Largest optical telescope mirror in operation Gran Telescopio Canarias · Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain See record ↗
08 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 293 moons Planet with the most known moons Saturn · Saturn See record ↗
09 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 24,960,480,792,174 miles Closest star to the Sun Proxima Centauri · Constellation Centaurus See record ↗
10 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 3,275 miles Largest moon in the Solar System Ganymede · Orbiting Jupiter See record ↗
11 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 13.2 miles Tallest volcano in the Solar System Olympus Mons · Mars See record ↗
12 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 2,485 miles Largest canyon in the Solar System Valles Marineris · Mars See record ↗
13 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 21′ 3.9″ Largest mirror in space James Webb Space Telescope · Sun-Earth L2, 1.5 million km from Earth See record ↗
14 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 88,841 miles Largest planet in the Solar System Jupiter · Solar System See record ↗
15 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 14.44 redshift Most distant confirmed galaxy MoM-z14 · Observed by JWST See record ↗
16 / Stars, Planets and Telescopes 867.2 °F Hottest planet in the Solar System Venus · Venus See record ↗
17 / Rockets and Spacecraft 15,907,102,521 miles Farthest spacecraft from Earth Voyager 1 · Interstellar space See record ↗
18 / Rockets and Spacecraft 408 ft Tallest rocket SpaceX Starship (Block 3) · Starbase, Texas, USA See record ↗
19 / Rockets and Spacecraft 49 years Longest-operating spacecraft Voyager 2 · Interstellar space See record ↗
20 / Rockets and Spacecraft 37 flights Most flights by a single rocket booster Falcon 9 booster B1067 · Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA See record ↗
21 / Rockets and Spacecraft 198 launches Most orbital launches in a year by a country United States · United States See record ↗
22 / Rockets and Spacecraft 165 launches Most orbital launches in a year by a company SpaceX (Falcon 9) · Florida, California, USA See record ↗
23 / Rockets and Spacecraft 428,746 mph Fastest human-made object Parker Solar Probe · Near the Sun See record ↗
24 / Rockets and Spacecraft 3,827,647 miles Closest approach to the Sun by a spacecraft Parker Solar Probe · Solar corona See record ↗
25 / Rockets and Spacecraft 73.5 meganewtons Most powerful rocket SpaceX Starship Super Heavy · Starbase, Texas, USA See record ↗
26 / Spaceflight 20 people Most people in space at once ISS, Tiangong and Blue Origin NS-33 crews · Low Earth orbit and suborbital space See record ↗
27 / Spaceflight 9:06:00 Longest spacewalk Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong · Tiangong space station, low Earth orbit See record ↗
28 / Spaceflight 16 spacewalks Most spacewalks Anatoly Solovyev · Mir space station See record ↗
29 / Spaceflight 25 years Longest continuous human presence in space International Space Station · International Space Station, low Earth orbit See record ↗
30 / Spaceflight 90 years Oldest person in space Ed Dwight · West Texas, USA See record ↗
31 / Spaceflight 19 people Most people in orbit at once ISS, Tiangong and Crew Dragon crews · Low Earth orbit See record ↗
32 / Rockets and Spacecraft 496 tons Heaviest spacecraft ever built International Space Station · Low Earth orbit See record ↗
33 / Spaceflight 7 spaceflights Most spaceflights by one person Franklin Chang Diaz and Jerry L. Ross (shared) See record ↗
34 / Spaceflight 7:55:00 Fastest US crewed trip to the International Space Station SpaceX Crew-13 (Dragon "Grace"): Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Joshua Kutryk, Sergey Teteryatnikov · Florida to the International Space Station See record ↗
35 / Spaceflight 437 days Longest single spaceflight Valeri Polyakov · Mir space station See record ↗
36 / Spaceflight 24,791 mph Fastest humans Apollo 10 crew: Thomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan · Earth reentry, returning from the Moon See record ↗
37 / Spaceflight 252,756 miles Farthest humans from Earth Artemis II crew: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen · Beyond the far side of the Moon See record ↗