Ariane 6 has been in development for almost a decade with the aim of putting Europe's rockets on the map.
Europe's newest rocket launcher Ariane 6 has successfully blasted off from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
The European Space (...)
A rocket launched from French Guiana early Tuesday to
put into orbit the latest satellite of a European network for Earth
observation, according to dpa.
The Sentinel-2A satellite was to be put into orbit 786 kilometres
above the Earth after around (...)
A Russian-made Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Saturday and placed into orbit an Earth observation satellite for France, space officials said.
The rocket lifted off at 11:02 p.m. (0202 GMT on Sunday) from a launch pad at Europe's (...)
Europe's new Vega rocket lifted off successfully from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on its first test flight Monday.
The 30-metre-tall Vega, which was designed in Italy and took nearly a decade to complete, lifted off at 1000 GMT on its maiden (...)
A second Russian-built Soyuz rocket to be launched from French Guiana blasted-off late on Friday carrying six military spy satellites, space officials said.
The rocket blasted-off at 11.03 PM from a launch pad at the European Space Agency's (ESA) (...)
AlQa'dah 23, 1432, Oct 21, 2011, SPA -- A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Friday bearing the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo global positioning system, a much-heralded mission that will redraw commercial competition (...)
Awwal 19, 1432, April 23, 2011, SPA -- A European rocket carrying satellites to provide telecommunications service to Africa and the Middle East, was launched late Friday, the European Arianespace company said.
The Intelsat New Dawn was the first (...)
France launched early Saturday the
military satellite Syracuse 3B from Kourous in French Guiana thereby
creating the conditions for faster and more efficient military
exercises abroad, reported dpa.
The satellite is to be made available to (...)
A technical hitch has halted the countdown for the launch of a heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket carrying two satellites, hours before its scheduled launch from French Guiana on Tuesday, space officials said, according to Reuters.
Officials from the (...)
French President Jacques Chirac on Friday expressed his "great satisfaction" over the successful launching of an Ariane 5 rocket and the placing into orbit of a French military communications satellite, DPA reported.
The satellite, called the (...)
A European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, the third in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky'' independent of the United States.
The Ariane-5 rocket blasted off at 1.26 pm (1626 GMT) from the (...)
