Topic: French Guiana
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana Friday bearing the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo global positioning system.The launch from Europe's space base in South America -- the first for a Soyuz rocket outside ...
PARIS (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Thursday in a new East-West partnership designed to redraw commercial competition in space.The scheduled lift-off is the first time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces ...
An Ariane-5 rocket placed two telecommunications satellites into geostationary orbit, the 43rd successive success for the European rocket, Arianespace announced.The rocket blasted off from the European space centre at Kourou, French Guiana, at 2137 GMT Friday.The 5.9-tonne United Arab Emirates satellite Yahsat ...
CAYENNE, French Guiana (Reuters) - An Ariane rocket launch carrying two satellites was aborted because of a technical hitch at the scheduled moment of liftoff in French Guiana on Wednesday, space officials said."We will now have to test and see why the ...
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - An unmanned Ariane rocket successfully launched from French Guiana late on Wednesday to supply cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), space officials said.The modified Ariane launcher blasted off at 6.51 pm (2151 GMT) from Europe's spaceport ...
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) -- A European Ariane rocket blasted-off from French Guiana on Wednesday carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), space officials said.A first attempt to launch the rocket was scrubbed on Tuesday because of a technical problem. It ...
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - A technical problem has delayed for at least 24 hours the scheduled launch Tuesday of an Ariane rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), space officials said."During final countdown one of the authorization parameters went ...
CAYENNE, French Guiana (Reuters) - A technical problem Thursday delayed for the second day running the scheduled launch of an Ariane rocket carrying two satellites, the Arianespace company said."We once again had a no-go linked to a problem of the pressurization of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The first launch of a Russian space rocket from a site outside Moscow's control has been delayed while engineers test a service tower, Interfax news agency reported on Friday.Its location close to the equator means less fuel is needed ...
The first Russian rockets to be fired into space next year from a space centre in distant South America were Saturday to begin the long voyage to the launch site from Saint Petersburg.Two Russian Soyuz rockets, the mainstay of its space programme, ...
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