Seven launches took place this week. Four of these are Falcon 9s, with SpaceX launching two customer missions and two Starlink missions. Internationally, Russia and Europe have both launched science payloads, while, in Australia, Gilmour Space intended to attempt to launch its Eris rocket once again, but has delayed again, into next week. In China, a Chang Zheng 6A launched on Sunday.
Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, has successfully launched on its maiden flight. Liftoff occurred…
Arianespace’s lightweight Vega rocket launched on its penultimate flight Sunday, carrying the THEOS-2 Earth-observation satellite…
Arianespace has suffered a failure during Vega-Consolidation’s (Vega-C) first operational launch, which was set to…
Vega-C, the newest iteration of the European Vega rocket, has launched on its debut flight,…
Components for the first Vega-C (Vega Consolidation) rocket are entering launch preparations at the Guiana…
Arianespace’s Vega rocket launched on its third mission of the year with the Capacité de…
ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency are carrying out preparations for the maiden launch of…
The Vega rocket conducted its nineteenth launch of Europe’s small lift vehicle, the second Vega…
After a five month grounding, Vega returned to flight following a launch failure in November…
Arianespace suffered another issue with its Vega rocket during the launch of two Earth observation…
Three flagship European Space Agency (ESA) projects have or will reach critical milestones this month,…
After a lengthy grounding following a failed launch in July 2019, the closure of the…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has delayed the first launch of their upcoming heavy-medium rocket:…
Arianespace’s Vega rocket is on track to conduct its Return To Flight (RTF) mission in…
Arianespace has published the findings from an Independent Inquiry Commission tasked with analyzing the failure…
Arianespace’s Vega rocket failed during the launch of the Falcon Eye-1 spacecraft for the United…
Arianespace’s future ambitions in the launch services market will be focused on two new launch…
Italy’s PRISMA Earth observation satellite launched aboard Arianespace’s Vega rocket Thursday. Vega lifted off from…
ArianeGroup has successfully test-fired its second P120C solid rocket motor, a step forward toward initial…
