Europe's MetOp satellite gets new launch date
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Third, fourth, or maybe fifth time lucky Europe's first polar orbit satellite has been given a new launch date after a "mechanical incident" at the Baikonur cosmodrome caused delays.â¦
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Building blocks falling into place The European Space Agency's (ESA) next big project is a step closer to being launch-ready, as scientists in Germany complete the "mating" of Herschel's two most fundamental modules, the cryostat and the service module.â¦
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The Russian military has postponed the launch of the Soyuz-M2 space booster rocket scheduled for this week. The Soyuz-M2 booster was scheduled to lift off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northwest Russia on
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At 03:57 CET today, mission controllers at ESOC
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Europe&#39;s unmanned SMART-1 probe established itself in orbit around the moon today after being captured by the moon&#39;s gravitational pull.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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MOSCOW. June 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia will launch the SAR-Lupe satellite on July 1 and this will be the second German spacecraft to be launched by Russia, Space Forces spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday.
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NASA set February 7 as  the new date for a launch on a space shuttle of Europe's  Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station,  officials said on Thursday.
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The enhanced version of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket will  not be launched until late January to give managers more time to verify its  flight-worthiness, Arianespace Chief Executive Officer Jean-Yves Le Gall said  Nov. 18. The decision clears the way for a Dec. 10 launch of a standard-version  Ariane 5 carrying observation and signals-intelligence satellites for the French  Defense Ministry.
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Military communications via PFI British military intelligence satellite SkyNet5 blasted off into space this weekend from Kourou in French Guiana. The launch was originally scheduled for Saturday, but a small glitch in ground equipment prompted a 24 hour delay.â¦
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Satellite-fleet operator Eutelsat is looking for gap-filler Ka-band capacity over Europe to meet the expected demand for consumer broadband services starting this year as it waits for its large Ka-Sat satellite to be completed and launched in 2010, company officials said.
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The head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos said on Friday he hoped a new spacecraft launch site would be built in the Russian far east by 2020 to supplement the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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The European Union urged member states on Tuesday to sign up to schemes to launch work on a new European heavy transport helicopter and next-generation satellite observation system from late 2008.
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Europe's ATV will be the biggest spacecraft Europe has ever flown when it launches in January.
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The long countdown has begun for the second attempt to launch a mobile voice and data services satellite from a Pacific Ocean platform.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon has arrived and begun orbiting, 14 months after its launch from French Guiana. European Space Agency officials confirmed Tuesday the SMART-1 spacecraft reached
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The European-built spacecraft Ulysses marked another mission point Wednesday as it flew over the sun's southern polar cap.