The near-term plan for the European Launcher Challenge is for ESA to select companies for service contracts to transport ESA ...

There are no customer satellites aboard the first Spectrum test flight. The rocket will climb into a polar orbit from Andøya ...

They hadn't heard of anyone else with the name, and the only other time they saw the name Ariane after that was when the Ariane 5 rocket launched ... spell - even my own family.

Meanwhile, the EU celebrated a successful satellite deployment on the second launch of its Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana. The project had cost overruns and years of delays, but the successful ...

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket roared skyward in its first commercial flight this week. It successfully launched a CSO-3 French military observation satellite into orbit at an altitude of around 800 ...

On March 6, 2025, the European Ariane 6 rocket successfully completed its first commercial mission, launching from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana at 13:24 local time. The rocket carried the ...

Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 blasted off on its first commercial mission Thursday, carrying with it the continent’s hopes of bolstering its security and independent access to space.

The high-profile mission comes as Europe seeks to strengthen its defences The European Space Agency (ESA) Ariane 6 rocket lifts off from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana ...

After the aborted launch on Monday, it worked today: Ariane 6 has taken off. The re-ignition of the Vinci engine also worked. The rocket lifted off at 13:24 local time (17:24 CET) from the Kourou ...

Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket successfully carried out its first commercial mission on Thursday, placing a French military satellite into orbit to give the continent a new independent access to ...

Europe's new rocket Ariane 6 successfully carried out its first commercial mission on Thursday, placing a French military satellite into orbit and confirming the continent's independent access to ...