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 [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) MetOp-A (Meteorological Operational satellite programme) satellite has finally launched on top of a Soyuz ST Fregat launcher again Thursday.
Overall it was the sixth attempt to launch the new version of the workhorse Soyuz launcher, which was using a digital system for the first time.

Europe’s Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle has lifted off on its fourth launch of the year, Friday evening, carrying the DirecTV 9S, Optus D1 and LDREX 2 spacecrafts into orbit.
NASASpaceflight.com is carrying live updates, images and video of the launch from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Launch video is available for [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) launch vehicle Vega has seen its upper stage pass vibration testing in Holland, with just the Critical Design Review (CDR) standing in the way of its 2007 debut launch.
The news comes as Europe’s other new vehicle, the ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) may have to undergo ISS-level program review [...]

Testing is going well on Europe’s ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) and Vega – Europe’s newest additions to their fleet. Critical testing is being carried out on the two vehicles that will debut over the next two years.
The ATV will carry out re-supply missions to the International Space Station, while Vega will aim to [...]

A final series of environmental and functional tests are being carried out in Holland on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new vehicle, which will soon be carrying out re-supply missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
The ATV (Automated Transfer Vehicle) Jules Verne suffered major technical problems 2005, but is now on track to [...]

The Elektron-VM oxygen generator on the International Space Station (ISS) is working again, following two previous attempts to re-start the equipment.
The ISS crew successfully activated the troublesome generator on the third attempt yesterday in 32 amp mode, after air bubbles were compressed out of the system.

While Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall is earning contracts and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific marketplace – including the signing of the VINASAT-1 contract – the next Ariane 5 ECA launch has received an upgraded upper stage.
The cryogenic ESC-A upper stage – supplied by EADS Space Transportation – will provide increased lift capabilities for [...]

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Paolo Nespoli has been assigned to the STS-120 crew that will launch Node 2, an Italian-built U.S. connecting module, to the International Space Station (ISS).
Currently NET (No Earlier Than) August 9, 2007, STS-120 (ISS assembly flight 10A) will launch with Shuttle Atlantis.

An Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle carrying the Satmex 6 and THAICOM 5 communication satellites into geostationary transfer orbits has launched from the European Space Agency spaceport in French Guiana. This mission saw the heaviest dual payload ever launched into a GTO.
NASASpaceflight.com covered the launch as a live event, with background, live updates, [...]

The Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC (Avanti) have announced 120 million Euro deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) and EADS Astrium Limited for the construction and launch of the HYLAS (Highly Flexible Satellite) communication satellite.
Set to be launched in late 2008, the spacecraft will aim to complete full HDTV and broadband internet coverage [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft Venus Express has successfully entered the orbit of Earth’s neighbouring planet, following a 400 million kilometre journey.
After a 50-minute orbit insertion manoeuvre burn, the probe reduced its relative velocity toward the planet from 29,000 to about 25,000 km/h – and was captured by its gravity field of [...]

Arianespace have launched their Ariane 5 ECA, on the fourth attempt, carrying two telecommunication satellites into separate orbits.
The launch countdown still had a few problems with the software integration between the launch pad and the Ariane 5 ECA, but the vehicle finally lifted off at 22:34 UTC, as it rose into cloud [...]

At the latest meeting of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Observation Programme Board, ESA today received the green light from its Member States to build and launch a CryoSat recovery mission, CryoSat-2.
The launch of the CryoSat spacecraft was aborted on October 8, 2005 due to a malfunction of its Rockot launcher, which [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) have successfully tested a new engine, called the Dual-Stage 4-Grid (DS4G) ion thruster, claimed to be a jump forward in the form of electric propulsion which accelerates a beam of positively charged particles (ions) as propulsion using an electric field.
The new engine is ten times more fuel efficient [...]

The ministers from the 17 ESA Member States have decided to go ahead with the core programme of the European Space Exploration programme Aurora and its first robotic exploration mission to Mars, called ExoMars.
Scheduled to be launched from Kourou to Mars in 2011, the ExoMars mission will deploy a highly mobile rover with [...]

European Space Agency (ESA) president Jean Jacques Dordain has stated that Russia’s continued role in the development of the International Space Station (ISS) is crucial – as the United States continues to move away from commitments as they move their focus back to the Moon.
The Americans are looking at a maximum of 18 [...]