Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launcher once again demonstrated its operational maturity and accuracy today by placing a seven-satellite payload into Sun-synchronous orbit. Drawing of the Ariane 5 payload ...

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HELSINKI — China launched eight classified remote sensing satellites across three launches in recent days, adding to the country’s development of reconnaissance capabilities. A Long March 6 ...

In a disappointing turn of events, SpaceX was forced to scrub the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, which was set to carry the Italian Earth observation satellite, Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation Flight ...

China continued its record-breaking year of launches by sending two satellites into orbit in recent days. The two new satellites launched on separate rockets and from different space centers, but they ...

In the early morning of April 29, people in Kourou, French Guiana, were woken up by the roar of the Vega-C rocket as it carried Biomass, the latest satellite from the European Space Agency (ESA), ...

Russia has launched a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, carrying the Obzor-R No. 1 radar Earth observation ...

On Sept. 22, 2006,the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency launched a sun-observing satellite called Hinode, or Solar-B. It was named after the Japanese word for "sunrise." The satellite orbits about ...