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JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2 are the two latest telecommunications satellites around Earth, after being inserted into their planned transfer orbits earlier today. The spacecraft were delivered to space by an Arianespace-built Ariane 5 delivery system.
The rocket took off from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South ... |
16 May 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday, May 2, that the Jupiter Icy moons Explorer (JUICE) would be the organization's next large-scale science mission in the solar system.
As its name implies, the spacecraft will focus its attention on studying as many of Jupiter's icy moons as... |
3 May 2012
08:29 GMT |
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According to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) Edoardo Amaldi will blast off to Earth's orbit on March 23. Originally, the event was scheduled to take place on March 9, but a series of technical problems forced experts to delay.
Under the new plan, the robotic ... |
6 March 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the next Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) is now loaded and ready to launch. The spacecraft is the third unmanned space capsule that the organization constructs for resupplying the International Space Station (ISS).
Dubbed Edoardo Amaldi, ATV-3 follo... |
8 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Representatives from European rocket manufacturer and aerospace company Ariane space and television provider DIRECTV announced last week that an Ariane 5 delivery system would carry the next DIRECTV satellite to Earth's orbit.
The vehicle will help the media group extend the range of services it currently has a... |
21 November 2011
06:33 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce the their efforts to start using the Vega rocket are progressing smoothly. Over the past few weeks, the organization managed to achieve a number of significant milestones for the project.
The most important of them was ESA's decision to start ... |
28 October 2011
10:26 GMT |
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The NASA Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe will soon get a companion in orbit above the hellish nightmare that is the planet Mercury. The European Space Agency has signed the contract for securing a heavy-lift rocket to get it there.
In a ceremony that took place... |
15 September 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Representatives from the American space agency signed an important document recently, certifying the support that NASA is about to bestow on the Alliant Techsystems' (ATK) commercial Liberty Launch System (LLS). The agreement does not include monetary support from the agency.
The agreement also goes a long wa... |
14 September 2011
10:54 GMT |
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French company Arianespace managed to launch another Ariane 5 delivery system recently, making this the company fourth launch for 2011. The flight again underlined the excellent track record the company has in this sector, and shows why it's a global leader in satellite services.Arianespace was founded in 1980, ... |
8 August 2011
03:29 GMT |
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In spite of its nearly-irreproachable track record, the Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system will be replaced by the European Space Agency (ESA) over the coming decade. The agency has just signed a €60 million contract with a propulsion consortium for the development of the next-generation rocket.Details about th... |
23 June 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the organization managed to launch an Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system on May 20. Take-off took place from the Kourou Spaceport, which the agency operates in the French Guiana, South America.This is the third successful launch for the Ariane 5 rocket this ... |
21 May 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Experts with Arianespace, a French group that became the first commercial space transportation company, announce that a heavy-lift delivery system scheduled to launch two new satellites in Earth's orbit yesterday, March 30, failed to launch after system checks discovered a glitch.
The rocket, a massive Arian... |
31 March 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce that the Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the second spacecraft of the series, launched today, February 15.The unmanned cargo ship is bound for the International Space Station (ISS), where it's due to arrive on February 23,... |
15 February 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Two of the most famous developers of rocket components in the world announced today, February 8, their plans to construct a new type of rocket, that could achieve first flight as soon as 2013. The Liberty delivery system would feature parts from two of the most established flight systems in the world, which together ... |
8 February 2011
11:10 GMT |
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In anticipation of a mid-February launch, engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce the assembly of the organization's next unmanned cargo ship to its heavy-lift delivery system. The team in charge of the take-off efforts is spread on four continents. The cargo carrier in question is the Johannes Kep... |
30 January 2011
07:06 GMT |
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Last night, at 22:27 CET (21:27 GMT), an Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system launched from the Kourou Spaceport in the French Guyana, carrying two new satellites for insertion in Earth's orbit.The take-off took place at a facility operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), which decided to build the Kourou cen... |
30 December 2010
03:47 GMT |
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Yesterday, November 26, the Hylas-1 telecommunications satellite was successfully launched from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guyana, South America, aboard an Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system.The launch represents the first time a spacecraft takes off under a public–private partnership, such as the one the... |
27 November 2010
06:07 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the Hylas-1 satellite has just been mated with its Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system, at the agency's spaceport in Kourou, the French Guyana. After spending several days being fueled in a special facility, the spacecraft was moved to the Final Assembly... |
19 November 2010
09:14 GMT |
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According to an official announcement made by representatives from Arianespace, it would appear that the European-built version of the famous Russian Soyuz rocket will not see its maiden flight until 2011.This date is arbitrarily set at this point, which means that it could be further delayed. Actually deciding when ... |
9 September 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that yet another of the materials its experts designed especially for the Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket is about to enter the commercial sector. The new material is an advanced kind of titanium, which comes accompanied by a special manufacturing technique as well, re... |
17 August 2010
11:14 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce the successful launch of a new Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system, which managed to deliver two brand new telecommunications satellites to our planet's orbit. The take off took place yesterday evening, August 5, from the Kourou Spaceport. This i... |
5 August 2010
07:06 GMT |
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Engineers at Arianespace, the manufacturer for the heavy-lift delivery system Ariane 5, can be proud of their work. Their rocket design has once again proven itself to be one of the most efficient and reliable in the world, when it soared into the skies on October 29, carrying a new double-payload. The take-off took ... |
31 October 2009
04:19 GMT |
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While the American space agency is struggling to launch its ARES I-X suborbital test vehicle and the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), the European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing ahead with its scheduled Ariane 5 launch, which has now been confirmed to take place on Thursday, October 29. A l... |
28 October 2009
07:12 GMT |
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After being successfully launched in May, together with the Planck Space Telescope, the billion-euro Herschel has finally ejected the cover protecting its delicate instruments from radiation, as it nears the final destination of its 1.5 million kilometers to the L2 point in orbit. Yesterday, mission controllers sent ... |
15 June 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Telescope, which was launched on May 14th, has sent back its first set of flight data, but not through conventional channels, but via the use of mobile phone technology, the same type employed by GSM networks. The observatory, currently inbound to its Lagrangian (L) 2 orbital point, contacted ESA&#... |
20 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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TerreStar Network (TSN) announced that its largest satellite yet, the TerreStar-1, had been safely delivered to the Kourou Space Center, in the French Guyana, South America. The instrument, which is the largest satellite ever constructed and scheduled to be deployed, is planned to lift off from the European Space Age... |
19 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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The Herschel and Planck space observatories will lift off tomorrow (May 14th) from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Kourou spaceport, in the French Guiana, South America. The two craft will be delivered to orbit by the same Ariane 5 carrier vehicle, which has recorded a large percentage of successful deliveries... |
13 May 2009
01:45 GMT |
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In addition to launching two observatories at the same time, the May 14th launch event, scheduled to take place at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Kourou spaceport, in the French Guyana, will also see the first time the new horizontal separation system HSS-3 being used. It was designed specifically to reduce t... |
5 May 2009
15:21 GMT |
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After a number of delays, prompted by technical concerns over the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel and Planck twin telescopes, mission controllers at the agency's Kourou spaceport, in the French Guyana, South America, finally gave the mission the green light. The two observatories will be launched on ... |
29 April 2009
06:04 GMT |
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According to the annual report recently released by the Arianespace delivery system consortium, the companies involved in the development of the Ariane 5 ECA rocket will begin to make minor modifications to the vehicle, which will allow it to increase its payload capacity by more than 400 kilograms by 2010. The tweak... |
13 April 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has delayed the launching date for its Herschel and Planck observation satellites, so as to give the German Space Operations Center (ESOC) the time they need to debug a newly-installed software. The program is meant to guide the two satellites during their launch and early operation p... |
15 March 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Thursday evening, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched another one of its Ariane 5 vehicles, which this time delivered four satellites into the geosynchronous orbit around Earth. At around 2209 GMT (5:09 pm EST), the booster took off from its French Guyana launch base, in South America, and managed t... |
13 February 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Eutelsat, one of the largest communications company in Europe, got its latest satellites delivered to orbit on Saturday, via an Ariane 5 rocket, which blasted off at 7.35 p.m. (5:35 p.m. EST), from the European space base in the French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America. The satellites will be mostly use... |
22 December 2008
05:45 GMT |
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On Friday, 18 April, Vinasat-1 was launched from the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 6:17 p.m. EDT, with the help of an Ariane-5 ECA space rocket owned by Arianespace. The Vinasat-1 satellite was joined by the Brazil Star One C2 satellite, and both were placed into geostationary transfer orbits. According to the ... |
21 April 2008
10:51 GMT |
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The European Space Agency issued yesterday a press release stating that the Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne has been approved by the Launch Readiness Review, and will lift off on 9 March at 05:03 CET from the Kourou Spaceport in the French Guiana. The ATV is a joint between the ESA, NASA and contractors CNES, ... |
6 March 2008
06:58 GMT |
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Yesterday, the European Space Agency tested the prototype of a new type of rocket motor, named P80, which was designed to propel the future small Vega launcher. The test took place at the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, at 15:35 GMT. After ignition, the measurements revealed that, in a duration of 111 seconds, the P8... |
5 December 2007
09:01 GMT |
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