Tag: Arianespace
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Soyuz launch with UAE surveillance satellite facing one-month delay
File photo of a Soyuz rocket rolling out to its launch pad in French Guiana before a previous mission. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon Russian and European teams at the Guiana Space Center in South America plan to detach a UAE spy satellite from its Soyuz launcher to replace…
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Arianespace begins stacking Vega ahead of March Return To Flight
Arianespace’s Vega rocket is on track to conduct its Return To Flight (RTF) mission in March after stacking operations began at the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Vega suffered the first failure of her career during the July 2019 launch of Falcon Eye-1. Vega’s return will involve the lofting of numerous satellites, with the manifest…
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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)…