ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 10:34 GMT on Wednesday, with their Soyuz TMA-15 scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) at 12:36 GMT on Friday 29 May - marking the start of six crew operations [...]

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has lifted off to place two space telescopes into orbit on Thursday, launching from the European Spaceport in French Guiana at 13:12 GMT. The dual launch marks the opening lifespan of the Herschel and Planck observatories, which has a price tag of 1.9 billion Euros.

A Russian Rockot launch vehicle - a converted SS-19 Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) - launched on Tuesday, following a 24 hour delay when Monday’s attempt was scrubbed at T-7 seconds, due to an issue with the Launch Service Tower. The vehicle is carrying the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) spacecraft into orbit on Monday.

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has lifted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana, carrying the HOT BIRD 10 and NSS-9 telecommunications satellites. Launch occurred at 22:09 UTC. Arianespace is targeting six to eight Ariane 5 missions in 2009.

An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has launched for the sixth and final time in 2008, lofting the HOT BIRD 9 and W2M telecommunication satellites into orbit from Kourou, French Guiana.

Arianespace’s continued push to dominate the launch service industry has taken another step forward on Thursday, with the dual payload launch of their Ariane 5 ECA vehicle - carrying Superbird-7 and AMC-21 from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
NASASpaceflight.com is covering the launch as a live event, with background, live updates and [...]

Arianespace was action again this evening, with the launch of their Ariane 5 ECA vehicle, carrying a dual payload of the ProtoStar-1 and BADR-6 satellites. Launch too place at the opening of the launch window that opens at 5:47pm, from Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) in Kourou, French Guiana.
NASASpaceflight.com is covered the [...]

Arianespace are back on track with the dual payload launch of their Ariane 5 ECA, carrying Turksat 3A and the British Military satellite, Skynet 5C. The launch from French Guiana was slightly delayed to 6:05pm EDT.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as an interactive live event, with background, images, live updates and a free launch [...]

Arianespace’s Starsem affiliate has launched a Russian Soyuz-FG, carrying European GIOVE-B navigation satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch was on time at 6:16pm EDT - ending with a successful spacecraft separation nearly four hours later.
NASASpaceflight.com is covered the launch as a live event, with extensive background, live updates (including “in the [...]

Arianespace’s 2008 launch surge continued on Friday night with the dual launch of the VINASAT-1/Star One C2 telecommunication satellites via the Ariane 5 ECA from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Both spacecraft were successfully separated during the latter stages of the 31 minute flight.
NASASpaceflight.com is covering the launch as a live event, [...]

Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) “Jules Verne” has sucecssfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Contact was confirmed at 14:45 GMT. Docking was complete 7 minutes later when the hooks were closed.
Following nearly a month of on orbit operations - including two successful demonstration days, controllers in France, the United States and [...]

An Ariane 5 ES has launched (4:03am UTC) with the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resupply spacecraft, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The “Jules Verne” will park in orbit until after shuttle Endeavour departs ATV’s eventual destination - the ISS.
Completing its first major milestone, the ATV successfully separated from its launch vehicle, after [...]

Arianespace are in the conclusion of their successful year, with the dual launch of the RASCOM-QAF1 and HORIZONS 2 satellites via their Ariane 5 GS launch vehicle. Launch was delayed to 9:41pm GMT - following two holds due to launch pad issues.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, [...]

Arianespace have launched their fifth mission of the year via their Ariane 5 ECA, carrying the Skynet 5B for the British Ministry Of Defence (MoD) and Star One C1 telecommunications satellite. Launch was at10:06 GMT from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) in Kourou, French Guiana.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live [...]

Arianespace are back in action today with the dual satellite launch of Intelsat 11 and Optus D2 via their Ariane 5 GS launch vehicle. Launch from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana.
NASASpaceflight.com is covering the launch as a live event, with extensive background, images, live updates and a free launch video (available now), [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) have signed two key contracts with NGL Prime S.p.A. of Italy, one for the definition of launcher system concepts for the European Next Generation Launcher and the other for the development of a European Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV).
The experimental lifting body vehicle will launch on the new Vega [...]

The ESA (European Space Agency) space telescope COROT has launched on Wednesday, via a Soyuz 2-1B launch vehicle, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2:24pm UK time (9:24am Eastern).
The launcher’s Fregat upper stage accurately injected the COROT satellite into its targeted circular polar orbit. A free launch video is available on the link below [...]

The fifth launch of the Ariane 5 took place on Friday evening, launching the AMC-18 and WildBlue-1 communication satellites into GTO (Geostationary Transfer Orbits).
Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall praised his team for the five successful Ariane 5 launches this year - once again stating how Arianespace is out-performing their competitors. A free launch [...]

Taking another step towards her debut flight, Vega’s P80 motor is schedule for a static firing on the same test pad a the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana, that evaluated the solid motors which power the Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
November 30 is the date for the maiden static firing of what will [...]