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).
With SpaceX’s successful launch of the Starlink Group 12-6 mission on Tuesday, the curtain came…
Arianespace completed its third and final orbital launch of 2024 on Thursday, Dec. 5, with…
This week is busy in spaceflight, with 10 orbital launches planned throughout the week. China…
When SpaceX launched Starship and Super Heavy for its first flight test in April 2023,…
The long-awaited maiden flight of Ariane 6 is scheduled to take place between June 15…
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,…
