April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... that are still operating, but lack sufficient fuel, to achieve a graveyard orbit. Launch of MEV-2 from French Guiana on 15 August 2020. Excitingly for SpaceLogistics, MEV-1 is only the first is a series of satellite servicing vehicles, with...
20 April 2016
Satellite company OneWeb announce ambitious plans for world-wide internet coverage
... of 2019. It is envisaged that some of the first satellites will be built in Europe and launched from ArianeSpace's facility in French Guiana, on South America's Atlantic coast near the equator. 1) According to International Telecommunication Union,
23 May 2016
Soyuz’ latest mission for Europe ready for launch tomorrow
Scheduled for liftoff tomorrow, May 24, at precisely 5:48:43 a.m. local time in French Guiana, Soyuz flight VS15 will launch and deploy two European Galileo navigation satellites in a circular orbit around ...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
Set to blast off tomorrow on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 09:54 CET is ESA’s first mission dedicated to studying bright, nearby stars that are already known to host exoplanets; ...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... 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.
24 August 2018
Astrocast and D-Orbit announce InOrbit NOW launch agreement
...to be launched onboard an Arianspace VEGA or Vega C vehicle (the last generation of Europe’s small launcher) from Kourou, French Guiana between late 2019 and early 2020. “Astrocast is pleased to partner with D-Orbit in securing an established, proven...
