Arianespace’s small launcher, the Vega rocket, has lofted the Sentinel-2B Earth observation satellite on Monday night (local time). Sentinel-2B becomes the fifth satellite launched for Copernicus following its lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was on schedule at 01:49 UTC (Tuesday).
After a five month grounding, Vega returned to flight following a launch failure in November…
The government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the U.K.) announced…
Russia’s Rokot/Briz-KM rocket has made its final launch Friday, with an early-morning liftoff from the…
In what was likely to be its last commercial launch, Russia’s Rokot rocket gave the…
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite launched Friday aboard what could be the…
The European Space Agency’s fleet of Sentinel satellites are busy checking into urban ground movements,…
Russia’s Soyuz ST-A rocket has launched with the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1B spacecraft and four…
A Russian Rokot launch vehicle – with a Briz-KM Upper Stage – has launched the…
International Launch Services (ILS) successfully utilized its Proton M rocket to launch the Eutelsat-9B communications…
Arianespace’s Vega rocket successfully completed her fifth launch, this time lofting the Sentinel-2A satellite –…
Two more satellites destined for a ride into space have completed assembly ahead of being lofted…
Arianespace launched a Soyuz ST-A rocket on a mission to loft the Sentinel-1A mission into…
Kosmotras launched a Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky on Thursday, carrying the United Arab Emirates’ DubaiSat-2,…
