Tag: Arianespace
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Two commercial broadcast satellites launched on Ariane 5 rocket
An Ariane 5 rocket takes off Thursday night with AT&T’s T-16 and the Eutelsat 7C commercial communications satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A pair of television broadcast satellites for AT&T and Eutelsat rocketed into orbit Thursday evening, riding a European Ariane 5 launcher into space in a spectacular…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 successful in dual-payload launch from French Guiana
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the AT&T T-16 and Eutelsat 7C communication satellites. 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 available on this page.
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Ariane 5 rocket arrives at launch pad with two TV broadcast satellites
The Ariane 5 rocket arrives at the ELA-3 launch zone Wednesday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A European-built Ariane 5 rocket rolled out to a launch pad in the South American jungle Wednesday with a pair of commercial television broadcast satellites for AT&T and Eutelsat, setting the stage for…
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ESA books launch of Jupiter orbiter with Arianespace
Artist’s illustration of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, spacecraft during a flyby of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency has reserved an Ariane launcher to send a spacecraft toward Jupiter in May 2022, and the mission’s project manager said Tuesday officials could assign the probe to Europe’s new Ariane 6…
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Viasat swaps Ariane 5 launch for new Ariane 6 rocket
Artist’s concept of an Ariane 64 rocket, the Ariane 6 configuration with four strap-on solid rocket boosters. Credit: ArianeGroup Viasat has modified an existing contract with Arianespace to launch one of the company’s next-generation broadband Internet satellites on Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 rocket, rather than on-board an Ariane 5 launcher, officials announced Monday. The agreement…
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Soyuz ST-B lofts another set of O3b satellites
The Arianespace Soyuz ST-B rocket has launched the next set of four O3b communication satellites towards orbit on Friday. The spacecraft are heading to a constellation that is already populated by 16 of the birds controlled by O3b Networks. Lift off from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana occurred at 17:03 UTC. This launch was designated…
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Soyuz launch deploys last of O3b’s first-generation broadband satellites
A Soyuz ST-B rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Center on Thursday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon The launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four more satellites Thursday to join SES’s O3b broadband network will help satisfy growing bandwidth demands in Latin America, Africa and…
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Live coverage: Four more O3b broadband launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with four O3b broadband satellites for SES Networks. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 1615 GMT (12:15 p.m. EDT) and will be available here. If you appreciate what we do, please consider…
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Two Soyuz rockets rolled out for launches on different continents
Russian ground crews working in starkly different environments on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan and in the lush jungles of South America are readying a pair of Soyuz rockets for two launches Thursday, one to resupply the International Space Station, and another to broaden the capacity of SES’s O3b Internet network. The two launches…
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All-Italian launch from French Guiana lofts innovative environmental satellite
A Vega rocket lifted off from French Guiana at 10:50 p.m. local time (9:50 p.m. EDT) Thursday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A Vega rocket fired into orbit Thursday night from French Guiana with Italy’s PRISMA hyperspectral Earth-imaging satellite, commencing a busy period for the Vega launcher program as…