November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... five experiments and instruments. Together, the two make up BepiColombo, which will be launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2018. It will use the gravity of Earth, Venus and Mercury, in combination with...
30 November 2015
LISA Pathfinder set for liftoff
... with unprecedented accuracy. LISA Pathfinder aboard the Vega launcher – fully assembled in its mobile gantry at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. “LISA Pathfinder is a complex mission,” says flight director Andreas Rudolph. “Even after...
13 May 2016
Arianespace's Next Soyuz mission begins payload integration with Galileo spacecraft.
... “Danielė”, was installed this week inside the Spaceport's S3B payload preparation facility. It will be joined...be performed from the purpose-built ELS launch complex at Europe’s Spaceport – with Arianespace’s Soyuz carrying out a nearly 3-hour, 48-...
23 May 2016
Soyuz’ latest mission for Europe ready for launch tomorrow
... the launch have been completed at Arianespace’s new Spaceport processing facility, which has fuelled the Russian built Fregat...Fregat Fueling Facility), the Fregat was transferred to the Spaceport’s S3B clean room, whereby the upper stage was ...
15 January 2018
MP highlights ROOM article during Parliamentary debate
... decades and contains a new framework for licensing and regulating spaceports and launch operators in the UK. Its second reading in ... months which will contain the real detail for spaceport operators and launch providers. UK government ministers say...
24 August 2018
First flight for EXOS's reusable suborbital rocket due tomorrow
... micro, nano and CubeSat community. “We are excited to enter into the testing phase of our SARGE platform at Spaceport America,” said John Quinn, EXOS COO. “We look forward to enabling space research, manufacturing, and educational opportunity...
