A camera placed near the launchpad delivers and amazing view of the first liftoff of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket. Credit: ESA ...

On July 5, 2023, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle took flight for the last time, thus ending a storied 27-year career for what was Europe’s first heavy-lift rocket. Nearly ten months later ...

The inaugural launch of a new heavy-lift rocket doesn't happen every year; it happens only every 20 years or maybe 30 years. And today we have launched Ariane-6 successfully," he told reporters.

This Week in Rocket Launches we have two launches from SpaceX and one launch from Arianespace. The Arianespace mission is more exciting because it will feature the maiden flight of Ariane 6 ...

but it will still be more expensive than Mr Musk's Falcons because a new rocket is needed for every new launch. Recent days have seen a test model of the Ariane 6 placed on its future launch pad ...

PARIS, July 6. /TASS/. The final European Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, on Thursday. The launch was broadcast on Airanespace, an operator company, YouTube page.

The rocket will take payloads into orbit more cheaply than its predecessor, Ariane-5. The ESA is expecting to make up to 11 launches a year.

Problem is, Ariane 6 still isn't cheap ... clients interested in launching on the new rocket, and that MaiaSpace hopes to have it ready for a first launch by 2025. Take that date with a grain ...

The EU is counting on IRIS² as a sovereign alternative to the likes of Starlink, Amazon’s Kuiper or U.K.-based OneWeb.

Problem is, Ariane 6 still isn't cheap enough ... MaiaSpace -- that will design the new rocket. It's also known that it is being designed to launch from land and land on a barge at sea.

In 2015, SpaceX changed the space industry, launching and then landing a Falcon 9 orbital-class rocket for the first time in history. Four months later, SpaceX improved on that performance ...