The Ariane 5, managed and operated by Arianespace, lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana in South America at the end of a 45-minute launch window at 22:38 UTC (18:38 EDT) following a hold during ...

Following a launch pause of over two months, Ariane 5 returned to action on Thursday with the launch of DSN-1/Superbird-8 and HYLAS 4. Liftoff from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the ...

On Thursday 23 December, the James Webb Space Telescope, safely stowed inside the fairing of ESA’s Ariane 5 launch vehicle, left the final assembly building for roll-out to the launch pad at ...

From the moment of the first space launch up until now, mankind has been sending various devices and people into space using ...

"We have had a very detailed analysis of the maiden flight and obviously discovered a few anomalies and things that need to ...

the Ariane 5, experienced an anomaly during its latest launch. Telemetry from the vehicle was lost about nine minutes into its flight from French Guiana, shortly after its upper-stage began the ...

So do competing launch providers, who find they may be unable or unwilling to keep up. Ariane 5 is considered state-of-the-art for current tech. Its theoretical maximum GTO payload is ten tons, and up ...