Tag: Arianespace
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Ariane 5 deploys communications and environmental monitoring satellites
An Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from French Guiana at 2218 GMT (5:18 p.m. EST; 7:18 p.m. local time) Tuesday with the JCSAT 17 and GEO-Kompsat 2B satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron A Japanese-owned communications satellite built in Colorado and a South Korean environmental monitoring observatory shared an…
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Live coverage: Japanese and South Korean satellites launch on Ariane 5 rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the JCSAT 17 communications satellite and the GEO-Kompsat 2B environmental monitoring satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast will begin approximately 15 minutes before launch and will be…
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Successful Soyuz launch deploys 34 satellites for OneWeb network
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with confirmation of acquisition of signal from all 34 satellites. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with 34 OneWeb broadband satellites on-board. Credit: Roscosmos BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz launcher fired into orbit from the remote steppe of Kazakhstan Thursday with 34 satellites built on Florida’s…
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Photos: Soyuz rocket poised for launch with 34 OneWeb satellites
A Russian Soyuz-2.1b booster is standing at the Complex 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff with 34 OneWeb broadband satellites early Friday, local time. The 15-story rocket was cocooned inside clamshell-like gantry arms as VIPs, reporters and photographers visited the pad late Thursday, hours before its scheduled liftoff at 2:42:41…
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The 50th Arianespace, Starsem mission completes OneWeb launch
The European launch services provider Arianespace — in conjunction with the European-Russian Starsem company — conducted the launch of a Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with 34 OneWeb space-based internet satellites. The mission launched from Site No. 31/6 at 16:42 EST (21:42 UTC) in an instantaneous launch window. The mission lasted 5…
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OneWeb sends 34 broadband satellites into orbit on Arianespace Soyuz rocket, challenging SpaceX
Europe’s Arianespace launch consortium today used a Russian-made Soyuz rocket to send 34 satellites into a near-polar orbit for OneWeb’s broadband internet constellation, sharpening a rivalry with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. The Soyuz lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:42 a.m. Feb. 7 (1:42 p.m. PT Feb. 6) and successfully deployed the…
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First satellites off OneWeb’s new Florida assembly line set for launch this week
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket is set for liftoff with 34 OneWeb satellites from the Complex 31 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos The first 34 satellites manufactured on a new commercial spacecraft assembly line just outside the gates of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are scheduled for liftoff on a Soyuz…
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Soyuz rolls out to launch pad with OneWeb satellites
A Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network rolled out of its assembly building Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and rode a rail car to its launch pad for final preflight checks before liftoff Thursday. The Soyuz rocket is set for liftoff at 2142 GMT (4:42 p.m. EST)…
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Government watchdog warns of another JWST launch delay
The James Webb Space Telescope is pictured during a sunshield deployment test in October 2019 at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn The James Webb Space Telescope is at risk of another launch delay beyond the mission’s current target launch date in March 2021, the Government Accountability Office said this…
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Photos: Ariane 5’s fiery climb to space from French Guiana
A European Ariane 5 rocket fired into a gloomy sky Thursday over French Guiana and streaked into space from the tropical launch base with 2.9 million pounds of thrust from two solid rocket boosters and a hydrogen-fueled Vulcain 2 main engine. Imagery released by Arianespace and CNES — operator of the Ariane 5 rocket and…