The European Space Agency on Wednesday announced the first flight of its upgraded Vega-C rocket. An improved version of the Vega rocket that made its debut in 2012 as a launcher specialising in ...

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully carried out its first commercial mission on Thursday, placing a French military ...

The rocket and satellite are "stable and safe," Arianespace said ... Russia pulling its Soyuz rockets and an accident that ...

Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully carried out its first ... Russia pulled its Soyuz rockets and an accident grounded the smaller Vega-C launcher for two years. But with Vega-C resuming ...

The Vega-C launcher did not resume flights until ... However, the heavy-lift rocket underwent a successful test in July 2024 and is scheduled to carry out five launches this year.

With the Vega C, the rocket for smaller loads was also unable to take off after a false launch. It too is now operational again. Ariane 6 can now transport up to 11.5 tons of payload into higher ...

A successful mission would mean Europe can independently put large satellites into orbit for the first time since Russia pulled its rockets after invading Ukraine in 2022.

Kourou: Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 is set to carry out its ... resulted in the loss of two satellites, Europe's smaller Vega-C launcher did not resume flights until December 2024.

Delays in developing the Ariane 6 rocket and several failures of Europe's smaller Vega launcher forced European satellite operators to look abroad, primarily to SpaceX, to launch their payloads.