After years of development, build, and testing, BepiColombo is arriving at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in South America for final preflight integration and checkouts. The joint mission between Europe and Japan is now in the home stretch of ground processing ahead of launch. The mission is slated to begin No Earlier Than 5 October 2018 with launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket that will send Bepicolombo on a seven-year journey to reach the planet Mercury.
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…
Europe’s Vega rocket has conducted its eleventh launch Tuesday, deploying Morocco’s Mohammed VI – A…
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite launched Friday aboard what could be the…
Arianespace conducted the fifth Ariane 5 launch of the year with the lofting of the…
Goodbye, Cassini. And thank you. After a 20-year mission, 13 in orbit of Saturn, Cassini…
Two spacecraft have completed their journeys to their Kourou launch site ahead of launching together…
Arianespace’s small launcher, the Vega rocket, successfully conducted the launch of the VENµS and OPTSAT…
Set for launch next year, the BepiColombo spacecraft is coming to the end of its…
Arianespace has conducted the fourth Ariane 5 launch of the year with the lofting of…
Following the interruption of a “social movement” that effectively shut down the Arianespace base of…
Arianespace returned to action on Thursday with the long-awaited launch of its Ariane 5 rocket…
Arianespace’s small launcher, the Vega rocket, has lofted the Sentinel-2B Earth observation satellite on Monday…
Arianespace conducted its first Ariane 5 launch of the year on Tuesday. The workhorse lofted…
The Arianespace Soyuz ST-B rocket has successfully lofted the Hispasat 36W-1 satellite into orbit on…
Airbus Safran Launchers, which now owns the majority stake in Arianespace, has issued a statement…