Twenty-five years ago today, arguably the most important Space Shuttle mission of the 1990s landed back at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding a daring, complex, and high-stakes rescue mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope.
The mission was also largely symbolic of what NASA can accomplish and served as a restoration of the public’s confidence in the space agency following a series of missteps in the first three years of the new decade.
SpaceX’s CRS-16 resupply mission to the International Space Station has been grappled by Canadarm2 –…
Ariane 5 returned to action on Tuesday with another dual passenger launch this time with…
Three days after a spectacularly successful landing on the surface of Mars, the InSight lander,…
NASA’s InSight lander has performed a perfect and critical entry and descent through the Martian…
Arianespace’s Vega rocket launched the second Moroccan remote-sensing satellite, Mohammed VI-B (MN35-B) 0 building on…
Arianespace launched a new European weather satellite Tuesday, using a Soyuz rocket to deploy the…
Arianespace has conducted the opening part of the BepiColombo mission with the launch of the spacecraft…
A milestone over 22 years in the making. Tuesday saw the Ariane 5 rocket conduct…
Arianespace’s lightweight Vega rocket has deployed the European Space Agency’s Aeolus climate science satellite Wednesday…
For the first time in human exploration of Mars, the presence of a stable, subterranean…
The final launch of an Ariane 5 ES rocket will loft another four Galileo satellites from…
The P120C rocket motor that will be involved with both the Ariane 6 and Vega-C…
The CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) spacecraft has completed integration work at Airbus’ Madrid-Barajas site and is…
After years of development, build, and testing, BepiColombo is arriving at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou,…
In what was likely to be its last commercial launch, Russia’s Rokot rocket gave the…
Following a launch pause of over two months, Ariane 5 returned to action on Thursday…
The Arianespace Soyuz ST-B rocket launched the next set of four O3b communication satellites into…
For the first time since 2002, it was feared Arianespace may have lost an Ariane…
An Ariane 5 ES rocket has lofted another four Galileo satellites from the European Spaceport in…