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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A Soyuz rocket has launched a new weather satellite for the Russian Government Friday, replacing…
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For the better part of 18 months, a Central Texas-based rocket startup known as Firefly…
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International
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