Topic: Launch Vehicles
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 ...
A Russian Soyuz-2 rocket launched a GLONASS navigation satellite on Sunday, the defence ministry said, in the first launch since a freighter carried by the flagship vehicle crashed into Earth in August.Russia has "successfully completed the launch of a Soyuz-2 rocket with ...
An unmanned European-Japanese mission to Mercury will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket in July 2014 under a contract announced on Thursday by Arianespace.The BepiColombo mission, named after a 20th-century Italian mathematician who studied the rotation of Mercury, comprises two probes that ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co, has won a $1.1 billion U.S. Air Force contract for work on the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program, the Defense Department said on Thursday.The work is ...
The US space agency said it would attempt to launch on Friday a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world's oceans and how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate.The launch of Aquarius/SAC-D was delayed ...
The Russian space agency suggested Monday that a foreign power may have been behind the space accident that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites earlier this month.Russia on February 1 launched a high-tech Geo-IK-2 craft to help the military ...
Arianespace said on Tuesday that it planned 10 launches in 2011, including six of its Ariane 5 rockets and the first Russian Soyuz rockets from the European space base in French Guiana beginning in August.The company, which managed only six instead of ...
An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites.The launch from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou was the Ariane 5 launcher's sixth ...
Tweet . French commercial space transportation company Arianespace has successfully launched its Ariane 5 rocket, with dual-payloads set to provide satellite broadband and television services to areas in Europe and beyond. Avanti Communications' Hylas 1 satellite was on board Ariane 5; it ...
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H-IIA Launch Vehicle
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