Tag: Guiana Space Center
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Vega launch timeline with PRISMA
The Italian PRISMA Earth observation satellite is set to ride a Vega launcher into a 382-mile-high (615-kilometer) orbit Thursday night from French Guiana on a mission that will take less than one hour from liftoff until spacecraft separation. Liftoff is scheduled for March 21 at 9:50:35 p.m. EDT (0150:35 GMT on March 22) from the…
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Live coverage: Vega rocket launches with Italian hyperspectral imaging satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket with the PRISMA hyperspectral imaging satellite for ASI, the Italian Space Agency. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast begins at approximately 0130 GMT (9:30 p.m. EDT), and will be available on this page.
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OneWeb announced as customer for inaugural Ariane 6 launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated March 7 to correct OneWeb Satellites factory details. Artist’s illustration of an Ariane 6 rocket launching a constellation of small satellites. Credit: ArianeGroup Arianespace has announced OneWeb, the broadband Internet provider seeking to deploy more than 600 satellites into low Earth orbit, as the launch customer for the inaugural flight of the new Ariane…
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Video: First OneWeb satellites deployed in orbit
A camera mounted on-board the upper stage of a Soyuz rocket launched Wednesday from South America captured dazzling views of the first six OneWeb broadband satellites separating from their carrier module more than 600 miles (about 1,000 kilometers) above Earth. The video released by Arianespace shows the six 325-pound (147.7-kilogram) spacecraft, each about the size…
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Photos: Soyuz lifts off on first OneWeb mission
A Soyuz booster vaulted into a sunset sky over French Guiana on Wednesday evening, arcing north from the jungle spaceport in South America with six satellites to inaugurate OneWeb’s global broadband network. The Soyuz ST-B rocket, fueled by kerosene and liquid oxygen, lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 6:37 p.m. local time Wednesday…
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First six OneWeb satellites launched from French Guiana
A Soyuz ST-B rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Guiana Space Center with the first six OneWeb broadband satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Carrying the ambition of an entrepreneur with a passion for connecting the world, a half-dozen satellites lifted off Wednesday aboard a Soyuz rocket from the…
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Live coverage: First OneWeb broadband satellites launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with the first six OneWeb broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 2117 GMT (4:17 p.m. EST) and will be available here. If you appreciate what we do, please consider becoming…
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OneWeb poised to begin deployment of broadband ‘mega-constellation’
Six of the first 10 satellites built for OneWeb by Airbus Defense in Space in Toulouse, France, are scheduled for launch Wednesday from French Guiana. Credit: OneWeb Six satellites built in France for OneWeb are set for blastoff Wednesday from French Guiana, the first of at least 21 launches using Russian-made Soyuz rockets to haul…
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Arianespace opens busy 2019 manifest with dual-satellite Ariane 5 launch
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Two communications satellites owned by Saudi Arabian and Indian operators rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket, the first of up to 13 launches planned from French Guiana this year. The 167-foot-tall (51-meter) Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at…
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Arianespace opens busy 2019 manifest with dual-satellite Ariane 5 launch
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon Two communications satellites owned by Saudi Arabian and Indian operators rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a European Ariane 5 rocket, the first of up to 13 launches planned from French Guiana this year. The 167-foot-tall (51-meter) Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at…