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After 27 years and 117 missions, ESA's heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket has launched into retirement. On July 5, 2023 at 22:00 GMT, Flight VA261 successfully lifted off from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG ...

An Ariane 5 launches in August 2020, carrying three satellites. A "less than fully nominal separation of the fairing" on that launch, and the one before that, has resulted in investigations that have ...

A European Ariane 5 rocket launched two communications satellites into the wrong orbit Thursday night, but both relay stations are healthy and should be able to use on-board thrusters to reach their ...

Arianespace's Jan. 25 Ariane 5 launch followed bad instructions that sent the rocket farther south than intended. Credit: Arianespace video still from Jan. 25. WASHINGTON — The Ariane 5 rocket that ...

Arianespace kicked off its fast-paced 2016 operational schedule tonight with the 70th consecutive launch success using Ariane 5, which orbited a pioneering new-generation satellite for this workhorse ...

Wednesday update: Unfavorable upper-level winds scrubbed a launch attempt of the European Space Agency’s Ariane 5 rocket on Tuesday from the European spaceport in French Guiana. However, Arianespace ...

The fate of Arianespace's latest launch was in limbo for over an hour after the company detected an anomaly. Ariane 5 lost contact with its ground controllers around nine minutes after liftoff, and ...

For nearly three decades, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Ariane 5 rocket has been a workhorse of uncrewed spaceflight. This rocket has lifted some of the most important and iconic satellites into ...

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket lifted off for the final time last month, bringing to a close 27 years of reliable service. The European Space Agency (ESA), which oversaw the mission, has just released ...

For this second time this month, the workhorse Ariane 5rocket carried out a double satellite deployment mission just like clockwork onThursday and set the stage to break its record for flights in a ...

Update: unacceptable winds forced a launch delay on Tuesday, July 4. The launch occurred at 6:00 PM EDT on Wednesday July 5. Following a two-week delay caused by faulty pyrotechnical transmission ...