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 ...

which has lower expected launch costs. The loss of Ariane 5 and the European Space Agency's (ESA) severing of links with Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, in the wake of the country's invasion ...

The Vega C is an expendable, small-lift vehicle operated by Arianespace. It managed only one successful launch, in July 2022, ...

The metal embedded in the handles of SpacePep's knives comes from the production process of Ariane 5 rockets. | Credit: ...

the Ariane 5, experienced an anomaly during its latest launch. Telemetry from the vehicle was lost about nine minutes into its flight from French Guiana, shortly after its upper-stage began the ...

The first launch of Ariane 6 ... While military satellites made up a limited share of Ariane 5 launches, the retired rocket's final mission in July 2023 lifted the French Syracuse 4B military ...

On the same day as the latest Vega-C take-off, SpaceX launched a Sirius XM satellite into orbit from Florida on a Falcon 9 ...

Engineers first created Ariane-5 in the 1980s with the aim of using it to launch a shuttle into space for astronauts. However, it was decided that would be too expensive, so in 1996 the rocket was ...

The launch complex covers 170 hectares, with buildings on 18 hectares. The site is located 17 km away from the town of Kourou and 4 km west from the Ariane 5 launch pad. With ample distance from ...

The nuts and bolts left over from Ariane 5 rockets are being used to slice through European space history, literally. A French company that crafts knife handles from leftover rocket metal and the ...

It already has a backlog of launch contracts, but there are worries its design could limit future prospects. Like its predecessor, Ariane-5, the new model is expendable - a new rocket is needed ...