Arianespace’s lightweight Vega rocket launched on its penultimate flight Sunday, carrying the THEOS-2 Earth-observation satellite for Thailand, Taiwan’s Triton (FORMOSAT-7R) weather satellite, and ten small satellites. Lifoff from the Centre Spatial Guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana came after a scrub 48 hours previously.
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CommercialEuropeanSpaceXUncrewed
Launch Roundup: Project Kuiper Protoflight and Galactic 04 highlight this week
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The Soyuz MS-24 mission launched from Site 31/6 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, flying a crew…
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ESA’s Space Rider likely to launch third quarter of 2025, program manager says
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Launch Roundup – Arianespace launches Ariane 5 final flight; SpaceX flies one of last Starlink v1.5 flights
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SpaceX launches ESA’s Euclid Telescope to explore the dark universe
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Europe has just completed the first successful hot-fire test of its reusable Prometheus engine integrated…
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PLD Space aimed to launch Spain’s first privately developed rocket into space, the Miura 1,…
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As JUICE struggles with antenna deployment, program manager highlights status of the mission
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European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace teams have conducted the launch of the historic Jupiter…
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Making its first military launch since November, Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a rocket has deployed Kosmos 2567 –…
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As launch approaches, JUICE project manager discusses trajectories and science
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SpaceX and its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket have launched the second of three OneWeb missions…
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In the new year, Russia plans to launch its first probe to the Moon since…
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CommercialEuropeanInternationalUncrewed
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…