Rocket carrying U.K. satellite launches
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A European rocket carrying two British and Indian satellites was successfully launched Sunday from South America after a one-day delay due to a technical glitch.
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An Atlas 5 rocket launched spaceward late Thursday, hauling a clutch of six military research satellites into orbit for the U.S. Air Force.
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A Sea Launch Co. rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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KINDERSLEY, Sask. (CP) - A representative from a team of Canadian engineers trying to send a privately funded rocket ship into space was in Saskatchewan on Wednesday to set up logistics for a launch that he hopes will happen within the next month.
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Fifty years ago today, the 70-foot (21-meter) tall Juno 1 rocket, a modified Redstone missile, launched the Explorer I satellite, marking the first U.S. built payload to enter Earth orbit. Three of the booster's four stages fell into the ocean while the fourth, which was used to boost Explorer I's velocity, entered orbit behind the satellite.
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RBC, 09.11.2004, Moscow 09:25:54.Russia has successfully launched a new model of booster rocket, the Soyuz-2-1A. The rocket blasted off at 9:30 pm from the Plesetsk launch pad carrying a satellite model.
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China has launched an experimental navigation satellite into space, state press reported, the nation's first space launch since it tested a satellite-killing missile last month.
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SASKATOON -- Transport Canada approved yesterday an application for a suborbital space launch by a Canadian team competing in an international race to put civilians into space.
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America&#39;s new heavy-lifting rocket takes its much-anticipated test flight Saturday, if Mother Nature cooperates. The Boeing Delta 4-Heavy rocket was supposed to launch today, but the forecast for strong winds
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A Russian rocket carrying two cosmonauts and one US astronaut launched successfully Thursday on a mission to the International Space Station.
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A European rocket roared into space from a pad in South America on Saturday, placing into orbit a surveillance satellite billed as giving France's military new abilities to spy worldwide.
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Russia launched a new-generation space booster rocket on Monday in a move that could eventually help send civilian cargoes into space, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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MOSCOW. Dec 19 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Space Forces have successfully launched the Kosmos-3M space rocket together with the German Sar-LUPE satellite, spokesman for the forces Alexei Kuznetsov told Interfax-AVN. "The launch was made at 5 p.m.
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The last Atlas 2 rocket was launched on Tuesday, putting a national security satellite into orbit after four days of delays caused mostly by stormy weather.
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MOSCOW: Russia launched a new-generation space booster rocket today in a move that could eventually help send civilian cargoes into space, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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A European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, the third in a French-led drive for a European &quot;spy in the sky&quot; independent of the United States.
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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"independent of the United States.