A camera placed near the launchpad delivers and amazing view of the first liftoff of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket. Credit: ESA ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interview The European Space Agency (ESA) had to use a SpaceX rocket to send its Hera spacecraft to Dimorphos. After the ...

In 2015, SpaceX changed the space industry, launching and then landing a Falcon 9 orbital-class rocket for the first time in ...

SpaceX’s triumph is downstream of a dream and getting the cost structure necessary to make it happen; Elon Musk is trying the same approach for Tesla self-driving cars ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) was effectively grounded from December 2022 to July 2024, after a failure of its new Vega-C rocket, the retirement of its workhorse Ariane 5, and the end of its ...

The penultimate flight of Japan's workhorse H-IIA rocket deploys a spy satellite. Launch startups in China and Europe are ...

ABL Space Systems has blamed its launch mount for a January rocket failure. Officials don't plan to broadcast a key Ariane 6 ...

Problem is, Ariane 6 still isn't cheap enough ... it's only supposed to be able to put about 1.5 tons in orbit, making it more of a competitor to Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB) than to SpaceX.