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...
16 December 2021
NASA delays launch of JWST
... Space Agency officials advised that the problem was discovered after the telescope was installed on the Ariane 5 rocket on Saturday. This meant that all the tests had to be run again to make sure everything was working...
