Europe’s IXV, or Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a small re-entry test vehicle, launched this morning aboard a Vega booster from the European spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff, in what was the fourth flight of the three stage solid fueled Vega small launch vehicle, occurred at 13:30 GMT. After reaching a maximum altitude of 412 […]
Arianespace Press Release: Second Vega launch by Arianespace a success: Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1 in orbit Kourou, May 7, 2013 On Monday, May 6, 2013 at 11:06 pm local time in French Guiana, Arianespace successfully launched the second Vega rocket from the Guiana space Center (CSG), orbiting the Proba-V, VNREDSat-1 and ESTCube-1 satellites. Second successful […]
After scrubbing a previous launch attempt due to high level winds in the upper atmosphere, Arianespace has rescheduled the launch of the second Vega rocket for this evening, May 6th, at 10:06:31 p.m. Eastern. The launch will take place from the Guiana Space Center, which the consortium also humbly calls The Spaceport, in Kourou, French Guiana. Launch coverage will be provided […]
Korea has announced that the upcoming launch of its Nar0-3 rocket will be further delayed while it awaits the arrival of a new fuel coupler from Russia. The Korean Space Agency (KARI) had hoped to reschedule the launch of the two stage rocket to sometime around November 17, but has yet to receive a firm delivery date on the replacement component, leading to a […]
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