December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
...carry only two-tonne class communication satellites. Those with a higher mass have to be launched by Arianespace’s Ariane-5 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana. Thereafter, there are any number of missions relating to remote...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
... for other reasons too, as it was Galileo’s last flight using a Soyuz rocket. From the end of 2016, further launches will proceed with a customised Ariane 5 rocket that will lift four satellites into orbit in one flight, rather...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... Simulator (LSS). The integration and testing of the various modules is being completed and the launch of BepiColombo on an Ariane 5 rocket is currently scheduled for 2018. After a six-year cruise, that will see the spacecraft fly by Venus...
