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...
April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
... you looking around? Huelva is a military base in southwestern Spain, so it’s very good for suborbital tests but it’s not a spaceport. We can do all the acceptance and qualification testing there, but our first commercial mission will be from...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... UK government’s taskforce to secure regulatory clearance for the first commercial space launch from the UK at Spaceport Cornwall, the first regulated spaceport in Europe. During this time what became increasingly clear was the urgent need for...
01 December 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 ...
