Europe is moving towards the second launch of its new Ariane 6 launcher after finding and addressing anomalies following its debut flight. Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space ...

Europe's powerful new Ariane 6 rocket will not fly today (March 3) after all. The Ariane 6 had been scheduled to launch a French spy satellite from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today at ...

Europe’s Ariane 6 lifts off on its inaugural flight July 9, 2024. Credit: ESA/S. Corvaja WASHINGTON — The second flight of Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket, and its first commercial mission, has slipped from ...

Europe has quietly crossed an important threshold in its space ambitions. With its latest Ariane 6 mission, the continent has once again demonstrated the ability to place strategic assets into orbit ...

An Ariane 6 lifts off Aug. 12 carrying the MetOp-SG-A1 weather satellite. Credit: SA-CNES-ARIANESPACE-ArianeGroup/Optique vidéo du CSG – S. Martin SALT LAKE CITY — An Ariane 6 successfully launched a ...

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully placed two satellites into orbit to join the EU's rival to the GPS navigation system on Wednesday after the mission blasted off from French Guiana. It was the ...

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and climate satellite to orbit. The powerful Ariane 6 lifted off from Europe's ...

Europe's long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket finally lifted off in July, picking up where the storied Ariane 5 left off. Most of the mission went off without a hitch, but there was one troubling issue at the ...

PARIS (AP) — An Ariane 6 rocket roared skyward with a French military reconnaissance satellite aboard Thursday in the first commercial flight for the European heavy-lift launcher. The rocket took off ...

It took a while, but a consensus has emerged in Europe that the continent’s space industry needs to develop reusable rockets. How to do it and how much to spend on it remain unresolved questions. Much ...

"We have had a very detailed analysis of the maiden flight and obviously discovered a few anomalies and things that need to be corrected." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...