The 184-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:24 am EST (16:24 UTC). Twin solid-fueled ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Europe's powerful Ariane 6 rocket just launched for the second time ever. The Ariane 6 ...

Credit: ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE-ArianeGroup/Optique vidéo du CSG - P PIRON WASHINGTON — An Ariane 6 launched a reconnaissance satellite for the French military March 6 on the second flight of the ...

Europe has not been able to use Russia's Soyuz rockets since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022, while the workhorse Ariane 5 was retired in 2023. European nations have been trying to boost their ...

Since the retirement of the workhorse Ariane 5 in 2023, Europe has had little independent access to space, with war in Ukraine cutting Western ties to Russian Soyuz rockets and Italy's Vega C ...

Its predecessor Ariane 5 retired in 2023, Russia pulled its Soyuz rockets and an accident grounded the smaller Vega-C launcher for two years. But with Vega-C resuming flights in December and ...

Meanwhile, the retirement of the Ariane 5 in 2023 and delays to the new Vega-C small-launch vehicle left the continent without independent access to space. Europe was forced to rely on Elon Musk ...

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 ...

Ariane 6 is the new European launcher and is intended to carry satellites into space for commercial and government clients. It is the largest European rocket to date and can transport up to 11.5 ...

Europe has not been able to use Russia's Soyuz rockets since Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022, while the workhorse Ariane 5 was retired in 2023. The mission had taken on greater symbolic ...

As Ariane 5 had already been retired by then, this marked the end of a year in which Europe had no transporter of its own to launch large satellites into space. With the Vega C, the rocket for ...