Time-lapse highlights after conducting a crucial 7-minute test-fire of Ariane 6 rocket. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...

A space physics expert has warned that debris falling from the sky could cause major damage and even kill people.

now-retired Ariane 5, notably experienced an issue with the rocket's upper stage that prevented it from performing a final deorbit burn. — Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket launches on long ...

Everything looked fine as the rocket climbed away from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Europe's normally highly dependable rocket, the Ariane 5, experienced an anomaly during its latest launch.

The European heavy-lift rocket has been launching things like satellites and telescopes into orbit around Earth since 1996. Ariane-5's final mission involved taking two telecoms satellites into space.

The history of the Ariane rocket is a space epic that has seen Europeans unite and innovate to make a place for themselves in the space race. Faced with Soviet and then American supremacy ...

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"A completely new rocket is not launched often, and success is far from guaranteed. I am privileged to have witnessed this historic moment when Europe's new generation of the Ariane family lifted ...

An Ariane rocket placed a Turkish telecommunications satellite into orbit late Wednesday after a one-month delay caused by a technical hitch, the firm Arianespace, which markets the European Space ...

The rocket was initially scheduled to be launched on June 6 but the launch was postponed due to technical malfunctions PARIS, July 6. /TASS/. Europe’s Ariane 5 carrier rocket, which was blasted ...

Meteosat-12 rode out of the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane rocket to initiate a new era in weather forecasting. The spacecraft will image the atmosphere over the European continent ...

MOSCOW, June 2. /TASS/. Europe’s Ariane 5 carrier rocket took off from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana on the South American coast, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace said ...