The European heavy-lift rocket has been launching things like satellites and telescopes into orbit around Earth since 1996. Ariane-5's final mission involved taking two telecoms satellites into space.
PARIS, December 25. /TASS/. The payload part of the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the James Webb orbital telescope has separated from the rocket, according to the Arianespace online livestream.
Like its predecessor, Ariane-5, the new model is expendable - a new rocket is needed for every mission, whereas the latest American vehicles are being built to be wholly or partially reusable.
Their new Ariane 5 Rocket could launch two three-ton satellites into space. It had more power than anything that had come before. The rocket rose up towards the heavens on a pillar of flame ...
PARIS, July 6. /TASS/. The final European Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, on Thursday. The launch was broadcast on Airanespace, an operator company, YouTube page.
Ariane 6 is the latest model in the Ariane line of rockets - Europe's own satellite launchers. The project dates back to a proposal from 1973 and the first flight of the Ariane 1 rocket took place ...
Their new Ariane 5 Rocket could launch two three-ton satellites into space. It had more power than anything that had come before. The rocket rose up towards the heavens on a pillar of flame ...
Europe's long-delayed Ariane 6 rocket finally lifted off in July, picking up where the storied Ariane 5 left off. Most of the mission went off without a hitch, but there was one troubling issue at ...
For the European space industry, the deafening rumble of the ascending rocket was a sigh of relief. On the afternoon of July 9, an Ariane 6 lifted off on a long-delayed inaugural flight from ...
On July 5, 2023, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle took flight for the last time, thus ending a storied 27-year career for what was Europe’s first heavy-lift rocket. Nearly ten months later ...
Europe essentially has no launch service currently, after retiring the previous-generation rocket, Ariane-5, in July; and being forced to suspend operations of its medium-lift vehicle, Vega-C ...