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James Webb, OneWeb highlight Arianespace’s 2021 launch schedule
Spaceflight Now · 11 Jan 2021
The planned Halloween launch of the James Webb Space Telescope — one of eight Ariane 5 launches left before the rocket’s retirement — and a series of flights to build out OneWeb’s satellite internet network highlight Ari...
Arianespace seeks greater support from European governments
SpaceNews · 7 Jan 2021
The head of Arianespace asked European governments to provide his company with more support in order to balance what he called government support of American competitors “with no precedent.”
Photos: Soyuz launches French military satellite
Spaceflight Now · 5 Jan 2021
Check out imagery from Arianespace and the French space agency showing the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket Dec. 29 from the Guiana Space Center in South America.
Arianespace targets early 2021 for Vega return-to-flight
Spaceflight Now · 18 Dec 2020
Presenting the results of an inquiry into a European Vega rocket failure last month, officials said Friday that misleading instructions and inadequate preflight checks caused teams to overlook wrongly-installed cables on...
Arianespace launches 36 OneWeb satellites from Russia for the U.K.
NASASpaceflight · 18 Dec 2020
Arianespace, contracted through OneWeb, used a Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage to place 36 new OneWeb satellites into orbit for the British government. The move resumed OneWeb launch operations after...
Europe and Russia launch Emirati military/civilian Earth imaging satellite
NASASpaceflight · 1 Dec 2020
Arianespace has used — with Russia’s support — a Soyuz ST-A rocket to launch a joint military and civilian Earth imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, Frenc...
Soyuz launches Falcon Eye 2 satellite for UAE
SpaceNews · 1 Dec 2020
An Arianespace Soyuz rocket successfully launched a reconnaissance satellite for the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1 after months of delays caused by technical problems and the pandemic.
Arianespace traces cause of Vega launch failure to ‘human error’
Spaceflight Now · 17 Nov 2020
Improperly installed cables on the Vega rocket’s upper stage control system apparently caused the launcher to tumble minutes after liftoff Monday night, a failure that resulted in the loss of a Spanish Earth observation...
Human error blamed for Vega launch failure
SpaceNews · 17 Nov 2020
Arianespace executives said Nov. 17 that the failure of a Vega launch the previous day was caused when the rocket’s upper stage tumbled out of control due to incorrectly installed cables in a control system.
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
NASASpaceflight · 16 Nov 2020
Arianespace suffered another issue with its Vega rocket during the launch of two Earth observation satellites named SEOSAT-Ingenio and TARANIS for Spain and France, respectively.