SPACE: The vega rocket deviated from its path eight minutes after takeoff The young European rocket Vega suffered the second failure in its history on Tuesday by losing the two satellites it carried just after takeoff, due to a problem during the manufacture of the launcher, assembled in Italy. Eight minutes after a successful takeoff from the Kourou space centre in […]
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Arianespace successfully launched the 100th Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou base in French Guiana. The European heavy launcher Ariane 5, with a mass of 780 tonnes on take-off, has placed two telecommunications satellites in orbit, Horizons 3e for Intelsat and its partner SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Azerspace-2 / Intelsat 38 for Azercosmos and Intelsat, Arianespace […]
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The two telecommunications satellites on board the European Ariane 5 which took off from French Guiana, was put into orbit, not the right place. The two telecommunications satellites on board the European Ariane 5 which took off Thursday from French Guiana, was put into orbit, but not in the right place. Arianespace however hoped a future “repositioning of […]
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Arianespace plans to begin marketing this year the services of the future Ariane 6, the first Launch is planned from 2020. Japan is seen as a potential big customer, said Tuesday in Tokyo its CEO. “Our ambition is to begin offering Ariane 6 from this year end as fly Ariane 6 in 2020 is a […]
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