The final launch of an Ariane 5 ES rocket will loft another four Galileo satellites from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Wednesday – with the launch expected at 11:25 UTC.

The Ariane 5, managed and operated by Arianespace, lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana in South America at the end of a 45-minute launch window at 22:38 UTC (18:38 EDT) following a hold during ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the ...

On Thursday 23 December, the James Webb Space Telescope, safely stowed inside the fairing of ESA’s Ariane 5 launch vehicle, left the final assembly building for roll-out to the launch pad at ...

the Ariane 5, experienced an anomaly during its latest launch. Telemetry from the vehicle was lost about nine minutes into its flight from French Guiana, shortly after its upper-stage began the ...

Their new Ariane 5 Rocket could launch two three-ton satellites into space. It had more power than anything that had come before. The rocket rose up towards the heavens on a pillar of flame ...

The gap between the final launch of the Ariane 5 and the wait until Ariane 6 became operational resulted in a stark choice – look elsewhere for a ride to space or have spacecraft sitting in storage.

It is Ariane 6’s first commercial, fee-paying flight and follows on from the test debut flight on July 9th 2024. The current plan is for launch to take place at 13.24 French Guiana time, subject as ...

After many years of development the craft has been assembled and shipped to French Guiana for a scheduled Ariane 5 launch on the 22nd of December. We can only imagine what must have gone through ...

So do competing launch providers, who find they may be unable or unwilling to keep up. Ariane 5 is considered state-of-the-art for current tech. Its theoretical maximum GTO payload is ten tons, and up ...

PLATO will be the first scientific mission to launch onboard Europe’s new Ariane 6 heavy-lift ... having been launched there by the previous European launcher, Ariane 5, at Christmas 2021. PLATO's ...