Arianespace has opened its 2016 launch campaign with the lofting of the Intelsat 29e satellite on Wednesday. In a rare single passenger launch, the Ariane 5 was tasked with launching the huge Boeing-built bird, with lift-off on schedule at 23:20 UTC from the European Spaceport in Kourou on Tuesday.
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Arianespace has conducted its sixth Ariane 5 mission of the year with the launch of…
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Space Systems/Loral (SSL) have announced they will build what will be the world’s highest capacity…
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Arianespace have concluded their sixth, and final, Ariane 5 ECA launch for 2010, as their…
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Arianespace have launched their six mission of the year via the latest flight of the Ariane 5…
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Arianespace was action again this evening, with the launch of their Ariane 5 ECA vehicle,…
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The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of…
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Arianespace’s lightweight Vega rocket launched on its penultimate flight Sunday, carrying the THEOS-2 Earth-observation satellite…
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Launch Roundup: SpaceX launches Galaxy 37; will launch Starlink Group 6-8
Breaking into the 31st week of 2023, from July 31 to Aug. 6, not much…
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Goodbye to the Ariane 5, the ‘Swiss Knife’ of Europe’s launch industry
The Ariane 5 flew for the very last time on Wednesday, July 5, sending government…
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Launch Roundup – Arianespace launches Ariane 5 final flight; SpaceX flies one of last Starlink v1.5 flights
Four launches were successfully conducted for the week of July 2 through July 9. The…
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European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace teams have conducted the launch of the historic Jupiter…
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Arianespace suffers failure on first operational Vega-C mission
by Lee KanayamaArianespace has suffered a failure during Vega-Consolidation’s (Vega-C) first operational launch, which was set to…
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CommercialEuropeanInternationalUncrewed
Arianespace launches three spacecraft, Intelsat talks satellite refresh efforts
Arianespace has successfully lifted three satellites into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) on Tuesday from the…
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Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket returned to action on September 7, deploying a high-power communications satellite…
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The final five: Ariane 5’s march to retirement begins with dual passenger launch
Arianespace, ArianeGroup, and the European Space Agency (ESA) have launched their second flight of the…
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Arianespace, ULA, Blue Origin discuss executing ambitious Kuiper constellation missions for Amazon
Amazon’s announcement of three launch contracts totaling 83 flights split across Ariane 6, Vulcan, and…
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Arianespace has launched its first mission of the year from the Guiana Space Center in…
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Vega-C stages in launch preparation as Avio, Arianespace progress toward rocket’s debut
Components for the first Vega-C (Vega Consolidation) rocket are entering launch preparations at the Guiana…
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Soyuz 2.1b successfully launches 36 OneWeb Satellites
by Joseph NavinStarsem, Arianespace, and Roscosmos have launched a Soyuz 2.1b for OneWeb flight 12. Lift-off from…