Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and ...

A troubled European rocket critical to the continent’s goal of reducing its reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX thundered off a ...

The second commercial launch of the European carrier rocket Ariane 6 has been successfully carried out from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, the project''s operator Arianespace said.

After a week of weather delays across the U.S, launch cadence increases as providers strive to catch up with the backlog. A ...

As preparations to launch Europe's first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite continue on track, the team at ...

— Watch Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket fire its engines in new timelapse video Tolker-Nielsen said Arianespace, which operates the launcher, plans to conduct five launches of the Ariane 6 across 2025.

Ariane 6 was undergoing flight qualification tests at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, including a countdown test of the rocket that was held on July 18. The rocket achieved 90% of the test ...

The Ariane 6 countdown test originally started July 13, but the countdown that day was cut short before the test continued five days later. ESA didn't mention that in its press release discussing ...

Ariane 6 is also expected to deliver ESA’s Galileo global navigation satellite system (multiple launches from 2023 to 2025), the Meteosat weather satellites (2024), the Earth Return Orbiter for ...

The Ariane 6's liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen-burning Vulcain 2.1 engine was fired up for the first time on Sept. 5, firing for four seconds in a test that went according to plan.

Europe's upcoming Ariane 6 rocket, though designed to be expendable, could one day sport a reusable engine, according to Patrick Bonguet, head of the Ariane 6 program at ArianeGroup.

Arianespace ordered the final 10 Ariane 5 boosters Jan. 9, placing a billion-plus euro contract with ArianeGroup to build the rockets while spinning up the first Ariane 6 rockets.