Tag: European Space Agency
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Photos: Ariane 5 rocket rolled out for first launch of 2020
A nearly 180-foot-tall (54.8-meter) Ariane 5 rocket rolled out of its integration hangar to the ELA-3 launch zone Wednesday at the Guiana Space Center in South America, moving into position for liftoff Thursday with two geostationary communications satellites. The Eutelsat Konnect and GSAT 30 satellites, owned by Paris-based Eutelsat and the Indian Space Research Organization,…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 launches telecom satellites for Eutelsat, ISRO
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Eutelsat Konnect and GSAT 30 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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Arianespace opens busy year with successful Ariane 5 launch
An Ariane 5 rocket fires away from the ELA-3 launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, Thursday with the Eutelsat Connect and GSAT 30 communications satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon The first of up to 22 launches on Arianespace’s schedule in 2020 successfully delivered a commercial European broadband satellite…
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New European satellite design to debut on Ariane 5 launch Thursday
The Ariane 5 rocket with the Eutelsat Konnect and GSAT 30 communications satellites rolled to its launch pad in French Guiana on Wednesday. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon A broadband communications satellite for Paris-based Eutelsat — built on a new Thales Alenia Space all-electric design with xenon plasma thrusters…
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ESA’s Huygens probe landed on Saturn’s moon Titan 15 years ago
This mosaic of three frames taken by Huygens during its descent to Titan provides unprecedented detail of a ridge area, including a network of river channels. Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Fifteen years after accomplishing the first-ever landing on Saturn’s moon Titan, lessons learned from the European Space Agency’s Huygens spacecraft continue aiding designers of future…
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Stacking of ULA’s next Atlas 5 rocket begins at Cape Canaveral
United Launch Alliance teams began stacking an Atlas 5 rocket inside a vertical hangar at Cape Canaveral Monday in preparation for an early February launch with the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint U.S.-European probe that will take the first pictures of the sun’s poles. This week at Cape Canaveral’s Vertical Integration Facility, ULA technicians are…
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Astronauts perform third spacewalk to fix cosmic ray detector
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT) after conclusion of spacewalk. Astronaut Luca Parmitano rides the space station’s robotic arm during Monday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now After prepping their patient — a $2 billion cosmic ray detector — during two earlier spacewalks, two space station astronauts…
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Earth observation, deep space exploration big winners in new ESA budget
Frédérique Vidal, the French government’s representative and co-chair on the ESA Ministerial Council, ESA director general Jan Wörner, and Manuel Heitor, the Portuguese government’s representative and co-chair on the ESA Ministerial Council. Credit: ESA – S. Corvaja European Space Agency member states on Thursday committed nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.7 billion) to fund ESA programs…
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Spacewalkers continue repair of cosmic ray detector
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano rides the space station’s Canadian-built robotic arm during a spacewalk Friday. Credit: NASA In a complex bit of orbital surgery, two spacewalking astronauts cut into a $2 billion cosmic ray detector Friday,…
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Astronauts complete bonus objectives in first in series of AMS repair spacewalks
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan is perched on the end of the space station’s robotic arm during Friday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA Two astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station Friday for the first of four spacewalks to repair a $2 billion cosmic ray detector, breezing through work to prep…