Tag: Arianespace

  • Hubble telescope’s successor has a ride to space

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    File photo of an Ariane 5 ECA launch. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG The European Space Agency has cinched an agreement with Arianespace for the October 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, which will dispatch the nearly $10 billion observatory on a bold mission that…

  • Soyuz/Galileo launch timeline

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    Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation system. A listing of exact times for the flight’s major events is posted below. Data source: Arianespace T-0:00:03: Engines at Full Thrust The five main engines of the Soyuz rocket’s core stage…

  • Live coverage: Soyuz launches on 13th flight from French Guiana

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with two Galileo navigation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Soyuz launches two more Galileo satellites

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    The Soyuz rocket carrying the 11th and 12th satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation program lifted off at 1151:56 GMT (6:51:56 a.m.; 8:51:56 a.m. local time) from French Guiana. ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Two more satellites joined Europe’s Galileo navigation fleet in orbit Thursday after launch from French Guiana aboard…

  • Arianespace Soyuz ST-B successfully launches Galileo duo

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    An Arianespace Soyuz ST-B launched with another pair of Galileo satellites from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Thursday. The launch of the FM08 and FM09 satellites – FOC M4, SAT 11-14 – was on schedule at 11:51 UTC, ahead of nearly four hours of flight en route to the IOC (initial operation capability)…

  • Q&A with Stéphane Israël, chairman and CEO of Arianespace

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    Become a member to access Spaceflight Now’s bonus content, including more Q&As like this one with space industry leaders, a video archive and other extras. File photo of Stephane Israel, Arianespace’s chairman and CEO. Credit: European Commission Arianespace chief executive Stéphane Israël recently discussed his company’s outlook with Spaceflight Now, touching on the light-class Vega…

  • Thales, Arianespace win repeat business with O3b

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    Artist’s concept of O3b satellites in orbit. Credit: Thales Alenia Space Armed with $460 million in fresh financing to grow its broadband communications capacity, O3b Networks has selected Thales Alenia Space to build eight new satellites and Arianespace to launch at least four of them aboard a Soyuz rocket in 2018. The contracts will allow…

  • Soyuz booster pointed skyward for Galileo launch

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    One day after a Soyuz crew transport rolled out to a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a similar Russian booster made a comparable journey Monday halfway around the world in tropical French Guiana for liftoff Thursday with two European Galileo navigation satellites. Missing its payload and Fregat upper stage, the Soyuz rocket…

  • Take a last look at the Vega rocket’s middle-of-the-night liftoff

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    Europe’s LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying high-tech thrusters and ultra-sensitive motion sensors to be used in a future gravitational wave detection mission, blasted off from French Guiana early Thursday aboard a nearly 100-foot-tall (30-meter) Vega rocket. After lifting off at 0404 GMT Thursday (1:04 a.m. French Guiana time; 11:04 p.m. EDT Wednesday), the four-stage Vega booster…

  • European probe blasts off on gravitational wave demonstration

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    Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin KOUROU, French Guiana — A solid-fueled Vega launcher fired through a low cloud deck and sped into orbit from the South American jungle early Thursday with a pioneering European spacecraft that marks a key step in a century-long quest to detect elusive gravitational waves predicted…