Tag: Arianespace
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Soyuz rocket rolls out for launch of European weather satellite
A Russian Soyuz rocket rolls out to its launch pad in French Guiana on Friday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon A Russian-built Soyuz booster arrived at its tropical launch pad in South America on Friday and was joined with a European weather satellite for launch Tuesday night. The MetOp-C…
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Ariane 5 launches two satellites on 7-year voyage to Mercury
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A powerful European Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana late Friday and boosted a pair of satellites into space for a seven-year plunge into the inner solar system, a voyage requiring seven planetary flybys to slow down enough in the sun’s gravitational…
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Photos: BepiColombo stacked for launch to Mercury
The BepiColombo spacecraft is pictured in launch configuratin shortly before stacking atop the Ariane 5 rocket in French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Ground crews at the Guiana Space Center in South America have spent the last few months preparing the BepiColombo spacecraft, a tandem mission with European…
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Live coverage: Probe heading to Mercury blasts off from French Guiana
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”Arianespace Webcast”] [tabby title=”ESA Webcast”] [tabbyending] The European Space Agency’s live video webcast will begin approximately 30 minutes before launch…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches for 100th time
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Horizons 3e and Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 communications 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…
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100th launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket sends a pair of telecom satellites into orbit
News Brief: The milestone 100th launch of Europe’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket put two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit today. The rocket rose from Arianespace’s launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 7:38 p.m. local time (3:38 p.m. PT), after a 45-minute delay. The dual payloads were the Boeing-built Horizons-3e satellite, which will provide…
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Photos: Ariane 5 rolls to launch pad with two commercial comsats
An Ariane 5 rocket emerged from the final assembly building at the Guiana Space Center in South America on Monday for the journey across the tropical spaceport to the ELA-3 launch zone, where the 179-foot-tall (54.8-meter) booster will lift off Tuesday with a pair of commercial communications satellites. What’s special about Tuesday’s mission is that…
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Arianespace signs Eutelsat as first commercial customer for new Ariane 6 rocket
Artist’s concept of an Ariane 6 rocket, in a configuration with four strap-on solid rocket boosters. Credit: ESA Eutelsat is the first commercial company to commit to launching on Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket, under a five-launch agreement announced Monday in conjunction with fresh contracts for Arianespace to haul a French spy satellite and a…
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Pioneering European winds observatory launched aboard Vega rocket
A Vega rocket lifted off Wednesday from French Guiana with the European Space Agency’s Aeolus Earth science mission. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A European satellite hosting a spaceborne laser crafted to measure winds in Earth’s atmosphere rode a Vega launcher into orbit Wednesday from French Guiana, a thundering…
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Live coverage: Vega rocket lifts off with European winds observatory
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket with the European Space Agency’s Aeolus winds observatory. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s video webcast is scheduled to begin at approximately 2100 GMT (5 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, and will be available on this page.