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Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket will stage an inaugural flight between June 15 and July 31 in 2024, the European Space Agency said on Thursday.

Following the failure of the Vega-C launch (VV22) in December 2022, an Independent Enquiry Commission drew several conclusions and made recommendations to ensure a reliable return to flight and a robust exploitation. One of the recommendations was to implement a (delta-)qualification of the nozzle with a new Carbon-Carbon throat insert material different from that previously used on the Zefiro40, the solid rocket booster of the Vega-C second stage. On 28 June 2023, a static firing test of...

The European Space Agency is currently only capable of carrying out manned European missions in space through international cooperations.

A new global deal to protect nature agreed on Dec. 19 has the potential to help, and scientists are urging the world’s nations to ensure the deal is a success. NASA formally retires Mars InSight lander after 4-year mission NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the U.S. space agency announced on Wednesday.

The European light launcher rocket Vega-C, that had two Airbus satellites Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 on board, was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana on Tuesday, the company behind the launch said. The rocket was supposed to place into orbit two Earth observation satellites built by Airbus. They were to join an existing network that captures high-quality images of different points on the planet several times a day. "The mission is lost," Stephane Israel, head of commercial launc...

Launch firm Arianespace said on Wednesday a "serious anomaly" occurred two minutes and 27 seconds after the upgraded Vega C left the pad in French Guiana, thwarting efforts to add two satellites to the Pleiades Neo constellation operated by Airbus. "Unfortunately we can say that the mission is lost and I want to deeply apologise," Arianespace Chief Executive Stephane Israel told a video feed of the launch, monitored via space.com.

Italian aerospace launcher company Avio has placed at the disposal of Malaysia and the university of Nairobi in Kenya its Vega C rocket carrier as part of the Expo Dubai 2020's Space Week. © ANSA

Italian aerospace launcher company Avio has placed at the disposal of Malaysia and the university of Nairobi in Kenya its Vega C rocket carrier as part of the Expo Dubai 2020's Space Week. © ANSA

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