The 184-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:24 am EST (16:24 UTC). Twin solid-fueled boosters and a hydrogen-fueled core stage engine powered the Ariane 6 through ...

Arianespace is still expecting to also launch Russian-built Soyuz rockets. To reduce costs, Ariane 6’s Vulcain ... while the improved Vinci upper stage will allow for additional orbital ...

TASS/. The nose cone in the Fregat upper stage carrying three Gonets-M satellites and a Skif-D module has separated from the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, TASS correspondent ...

The flight didn't go perfectly, however; the Ariane 6's upper stage failed to complete an engine burn designed to set up the deployment of two experimental reentry capsules. ESA had originally ...

The Ariane 6 rocket lifted from Europe's spaceport ... carrying out a series of trials but leaving its upper stage in orbit after a software glitch. Thursday's launch, ferrying the CSO-3 optical ...

The success means that Europe can now independently put large satellites into orbit for the first time since Russia pulled its heavy Soyuz rockets after invading Ukraine in 2022. Ariane 6 was ...

AFP KOUROU: Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 ... pulled its heavy Soyuz rockets after invading Ukraine in 2022. The launch was progressing normally, with the main stage separating from ...

Ariane 5 was retired in 2023 and Europe has not been able to use Russia’s Soyuz rocket for satellite launches since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ariane 6 underwent a successful test in ...

MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. A Fregat booster with Iran’s Khayyam satellite and 16 smaller spacecraft successfully separated from the upper stage of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, Russia’s State ...