Ariane 5 returned to action on Tuesday with another dual passenger launch this time with GSAT-11 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2A. Liftoff from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana was on schedule at the start of a 76 minute launch window that opened at 5:37 pm local time (20:37 UTC). Flight VA246 was performed from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3).
2018
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On December 3, 2018, after a journey that started on September 8, 2016, with a…
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SpaceX will for the first time launch a Falcon 9 booster on its third flight…
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The 100th orbital launch of 2018, Roscosmos’ Soyuz MS-11 lofted three international crewmembers from the…
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A Russian Rokot launch vehicle – with a Briz-KM Upper Stage – has launched from…
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Three days after a spectacularly successful landing on the surface of Mars, the InSight lander,…
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The Indian Space Research Organisation launched a PSLV rocket Thursday, carrying thirty-one payloads including the…
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Blue Origin
Blue Origin publishes New Glenn overview as pad and landing ship continue development
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NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian…
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As another spacecraft prepares to land on Mars, the Dawn spacecraft recently ended its mission…
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The 404-day clock to connect, checkout, and test the first integrated Orion spacecraft for its…
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Arianespace’s Vega rocket launched the second Moroccan remote-sensing satellite, Mohammed VI-B (MN35-B) 0 building on…
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China launched another orbital mission from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Long March-2D…
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Virgin Orbit achieved another major milestone on Sunday, with LauncherOne taken on a captive carry…
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China successfully launched a new pair of navigation satellites on Sunday marking China’s 33rd launch…
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InternationalISSRussian
Russia resumes Soyuz-FG rocket, Station flights with Progress MS-10 cargo vehicle
The Russian Progress MS-10 resupply vehicle for the International Space Station launched from the Baikonur…
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SpaceX launched Qatar’s Es’hail-2 spacecraft Thursday, using a Falcon 9 rocket to place the communications…
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India launched the third flight of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk.III Wednesday, carrying the…
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Stratolaunch systems continue to progress towards their first launch by completing the first hot-fire tests…