28 January 2016
Historic Intelsat Satellite Launch Successful
...a historically vital launch for Intelsat, Europe's Ariane 5 rocket had successfully placed the first of Intelast's...-throughput satellites appeal to new markets for mobile broadband. Ariane 5, launched from Guiana Space Center in South America, placed...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
...($2 million), and have been awarded to the following companies: Airbus Safran Launchers, prime contractor for Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 rockets; Deimos Space UK, associated with Firefly Space Systems (USA); Lockheed Martin (USA); Orbital ATK (UK); Virgin...
06 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
... the last 20 years, occasionally pressuring France into supporting the ISS in exchange for German support of Europe's Ariane rocket program. In December 2014, France and Germany had reached an agreement according to which Germany would play a larger...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... every possible eventuality.” BepiColombo is set for launch at 01:45 GMT (03:45 CEST) on 20 October, on board an Ariane 5 rocket. Once the spacecraft separates from the rocket's 'upper stage', teams at ESOC will take over to get the spacecraft into...
24 December 2021
Less than 24hrs to go before the launch of JWST!
...James Webb Space Telescope complete, it’s all eyes on the Ariane 5 rocket that will carry and deploy one of NASA’s most ... of a drop-leaf table, so that it can fit into a rocket. The mirror will then unfold after launch. Light collected by the mirrors...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
..., the two make up BepiColombo, which will be launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2018.... Transport Module will be folded while inside the Ariane 5 rocket. Another test performed was the stacking together ...
