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...
09 October 2019
The first satellite servicing spacecraft launches successfully
... A second Mission Extension Vehicle, set for launch in 2020, is also planned. This spacecraft will launch on top of an Ariane 5 rocket and it is also being geared up to service another ageing Intelsat communications satellite in geostationary orbit.
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...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... of the electromagnetic spectrum to complement these studies. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace's ELA-3 launch complex at European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana in 2021.
07 August 2019
Successful launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite
... (also known as EDRS, European Data Relay System), has been successfully launched into geostationary orbit at 31° East by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. After a test period, it will double transmission capacity of the system in order...
