(Bloomberg) -- Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket launched to orbit during its long-awaited debut on Tuesday, but suffered a problem in space that cut short the mission just before a key test milestone.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched its Ariane-6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. Developed at a cost of €4bn (£3.4bn), Europe's new rocket set off at about 16:00 local time (19:00 ...

“Getting Ariane 6 to launch and to re-establish Europe’s access to space is of highest priority for ESA to resume regular rocket launches from Europe’s Spaceport,” states ESA Director ...

Europe's big new rocket, Ariane-6, has blasted off on its maiden flight. The vehicle set off from a launchpad in French Guiana at 16:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on a demonstration mission to put a ...

On 22-23 November, in Paris, Esa member states will discuss a programme to improve the Ariane 6 and advance reusable-rocket technologies and whether Europe should fly its own astronauts to space.

The Intelsat-33e communications satellite is no longer operational after an outage Oct. 19; affected customers are being moved to other platforms, the company added in a statement. Meanwhile, U.S.

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Credit: ESA / S. Corvaja For the European space industry, the deafening rumble of the ascending rocket was a sigh of relief. On the afternoon of July 9, an Ariane 6 lifted off on a long-delayed ...

ULA's new Vulcan rocket, which will replace the Atlas V, has launched on two successful test flights. The company ...

riding rockets to space before landing back on earth like an airplane. A couple of years later, Ariane changed its mind again, announcing a Prometheus reusable rocket that could launch and land on ...