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 ...

The new European Ariane 6 rocket lifted off on Thursday for the first time on a commercial flight into space, carrying a French air force satellite. Live images showed the rocket lifting off from the ...

The Ariane 6 can carry larger satellites, launching payloads of up to 21.6 metric tons into lower orbits and 11.5 tons into ...

Ariane 6 replaces Ariane 5, which for more than 25 years was the workhorse of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the main vehicle used to send satellites and other payloads into orbit. It is an ...

Why SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Arianespace made Fast Company's list of the most innovative companies doing work in space.

Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum, a two-stage orbital launch vehicle, will be the first privately built rocket to lift off from ...

Isar Aerospace is preparing to launch its Spectrum rocket from a base in Norway, which would make it the first orbital launch ...

Ariane vehicles are built by a consortium ... Standing about 92 feet tall with a diameter of about 6 feet, Spectrum is designed to carry payloads of up to 2,200 pounds to low Earth orbit.

But the MAPP rover is large enough to carry other payloads as well ... launching rockets for Europe’s space program. The Ariane 6 rocket lifted off on time at 11:24 a.m. Eastern time.