Tag: Arianespace
ArianeGroup has received a 50-million-euro agreement from the European Space Agency to continue the development of PHOEBUS, a super-light carbon composite upper stage demonstrator. This work will enable development of the next Ariane6 upper stage, by raising the maturity...
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Lampoldshausen successfully tested the upper stage of Ariane 6 for the first time on 5 October 2022.
Original article from DLR
A hot-fire test is a highly demanding...
A futuristic spacecraft built under an original and exciting cooperative agreement is taking shape in ArianeGroup’s large clean room in Lampoldshausen, Germany: the lunar lander from the Japanese start-up ispace.
ArianeGroup, which supplies components for the propulsion system, is also...
The lower and upper stages of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle for the combined tests on the launch pad have arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
The lower stage was made at ArianeGroup’s Les Mureaux site in France, and the upper stage...
Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, will finalize the launch of the first generation...
On Saturday, December 25, 2021, at 9:20 am local time, an Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), injecting the Webb Space Telescope, developed by NASA in partnership...
Arianespace signed a contract with Australian operator SingTel Optus to orbit the Optus-11 satellite using the Ariane 6 heavy launch vehicle. Optus-11 will be the seventh SingTel Optus satellite launched by Arianespace.
Arianespace and Australian operator SingTel Optus signed the...
For its 11th launch of the year, the second using Ariane 5, Arianespace orbited two geostationary satellites: SES-17, a telecommunications satellite operated by SES, and SYRACUSE 4A, a telecommunications satellite developed for the French Ministry of the Armed Forces....