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.

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.

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.

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 ...

The first launch of an Ariane 5 rocket took place in 1996. The program was decided back in 1987. Ariane 5 was to carry a wide variety of loads into space with a high degree of reliability and at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Alpha Centauri channel, which specializes in space topics, suggested that the Russian military could have confused the second stage of the European Ariane 6 rocket with an attack by Ukrainian ...

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 ...