February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... Earlier in his career, whilst at the helm of Arianespace, he was the artisan of the technical procedures that delivered Ariane 5, Europe’s most successful launcher to date. Here, in conversation with ROOM’s Managing Editor, Clive Simpson, Mr Le Gall...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... 3 and SES-14 were able to recover themselves to the correctly inclined geostationary transfer orbit after their misdirected Ariane flight, the lifespan loss to Al Yah 3 in doing this recovery resulted in a US$115 million insurance claim. This added...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... spacesuit rather than their national flag. Do we need to wait until they put foot on the Moon or on Mars? An Ariane rocket on its launch pad in French Guiana - the programme can be viewed as a symbol of European cooperation. I am ready to believe...
13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... return to Earth. “Europe has leadership in going to orbit,” Tumino said. “We have the long history of the Ariane family up to the Ariane 5, and we have also the success of the new Vega launcher. We believe the European know-how...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
...least a chance of supporting simple microbial organisms. The Ariane 5 launcher did not have the capacity to send the... JUICE is the last ESA space science mission to launch on an Ariane 5, the culmination of a legacy dating back to 1999 with the launch...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... its Falcon 9. If it is successful, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will meanwhile be able to out-perform heavy capacity vehicles such as Ariane-5 and Proton-M. So, the Europeans’ and the Russians’ shares of the commercial market will steadily decline. Later...
