Arianespace will fly its next rocket mission (VA263) with Ariane 6 on February 26th. Its cargo will be a French military satellite (the CSO-3 high-res optical satellite). It is Ariane 6’s first ...

The rocket will carry the Michibiki ... Arianespace has planned for this year. The next flight is scheduled for August. Both missions involve the Ariane 62 configuration with two P120C solid ...

now-retired Ariane 5, notably experienced an issue with the rocket's upper stage that prevented it from performing a final deorbit burn. Tolker-Nielsen said Arianespace, which operates the ...

What happened to China's reusable rocket testbed? A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight on January 18 (US ...

During last week’s 17th European Space Conference, launch company Arianespace announced it had won three new contracts.

Granted, Rocket Lab's Electron rocket doesn't have nearly the capability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 (or of ULA's Vulcan, or of Arianespace's Ariane 6, either) to launch heavy payloads. And Rocket Lab ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of reducing ...

During tonight’s launch broadcast, a Blue Origin VP Ariane Cornell ... when the next launch opportunity will be,” Cornell said. At 9 p.m. ET, Blue Origin confirmed the rocket was being loaded ...

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Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit ...