A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was ...

The European Space Agency 's (ESA) Biomass spacecraft lifted off atop a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, ...

ESA has already decided to spend nearly $3 billion over the next decade to build a more powerful version of Ariane, the so-called Ariane-5, to lift heavier satellites. But the arguments about what ...

As the European Space Agency (ESA) approaches its 50th anniversary, its ambitions for lunar exploration are taking a sharp ...

Successful qualification run for P160C solid-fuel motor in South American spaceport A qualification version of the P160C ...

ESA and Europe are currently served by the Ariane 6 and Vega rockets, but the agency is opening up launches to competition from new companies in response to the global trend of new and reusable ...

The Ariane 5, however, could be described with ... into the launch so they didn’t have to keep restarting it. The ESA never placed blame on a single contractor. The programmers had made ...

The Biomass satellite is designed to measure carbon stocks in tropical forests, helping scientists to understand how they ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was secured on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that launched it into space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in December 2021 Photo by M. Pedoussaut/ESA/NASA ...

call for using 13 Ariane 6 launches to deploy most of the constellation near the end of the decade. Vega C launches on its inaugural flight July 13, 2022. Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Optique ...