Tag: Arianespace
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Soyuz rocket supplies sendoff for multi-national telecom payload
The Soyuz rocket lifts off from a launch pad in French Guiana on Friday night. Credit: Arianespace Launching from the edge of the Amazon jungle in South America, a Russian-built Soyuz booster fired into orbit Friday night with a Spanish-owned communications satellite built in Germany to test new commercial telecom technologies and provide video, voice…
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Photos: Soyuz rocket climbs away from South American launch pad
A Soyuz rocket took off from French Guiana on Friday with Hispasat 36W-1, a communications satellite designed to connect Latin America and Europe with video, data and cellular phone services. The three-stage booster and its Fregat upper stage delivered the 7,100-pound (3,220-kilogram) spacecraft into geostationary orbit about a half-hour after liftoff, which occurred at 0103:34…
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Live coverage: Arianespace declares success on first flight of the year
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with the Hispasat 36W-1 commercial communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 0043 GMT (7:43 p.m. EST). Please ensure your browser is updated with…
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Photos: Commercial telecom satellite mounted for launch on Soyuz rocket
A new satellite design will debut with Friday’s launch of a Russian-built Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on a commercial mission to relay video, data and voice messages between the Americas and Europe. These photos show the Hispasat 36W-1 communications satellite being transferred Jan. 24 from a preparation facility to the Soyuz launch pad at…
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NASA resumes JWST vibration testing
A clean tent is lowered over the James Webb Space Telescope, with its wings folded back in launch configuration, before the start of vibration testing in November. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Vibration testing on the James Webb Space Telescope, the multibillion-dollar successor to Hubble, has resumed after engineers traced a problem that cropped up last month…
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Soyuz rolled to launch pad for first geostationary launch from French Guiana
A Soyuz rocket was transferred to the launch pad in French Guiana on Tuesday for a flight at the end of the week with the Hispasat 36W-1 communications satellite. Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017 A Russian-built Soyuz rocket moved to its launch pad on the northeastern coast of South America on Tuesday ahead of a Friday…
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Airbus Safran promotes launch record ahead of Ariane 6 entering production
Airbus Safran Launchers, which now owns the majority stake in Arianespace, has issued a statement of intent, promoting Ariane 5’s track record as it prepares to enter the production phase of its next-generation launcher, the Ariane 6. The new rocket is set to become operational in 2020. Ariane Transition: Airbus Safran Launchers is looking towards…
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Arianespace nets two commercial launch contracts
File photo of an Ariane 5 rocket on its launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron Arianespace has opened the year with two contracts to deliver commercial television and broadband satellites to orbit aboard Ariane 5 rockets launched from French…
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Photos: Arianespace caps 2016 campaign with successful Ariane 5 flight
The Ariane 5 rocket’s 90th launch Wednesday carried two communications satellites to orbit to join the fleets of Embratel Star One and SKY Perfect JSAT, regional space-based telecom providers in Brazil and Japan. The 180-foot-tall (55-meter) rocket blasted off at 2030 GMT (3:30 p.m. EST; 5:30 p.m. French Guiana time) Wednesday from the European-run Guiana…
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Watch Ariane 5 launch with Star One D1 and JCSAT 15
Watch a replay of the launch of an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana carrying the Star One D1 and JCSAT-15 communications satellites. Video: Arianespace.