Ariane 6 is the latest model in the Ariane line of rockets - Europe's own satellite launchers. The project dates back to a proposal from 1973 and the first flight of the Ariane 1 rocket took place ...

Ariane-6 is intended to be a workhorse rocket ... Like its predecessor, Ariane-5, the new model is expendable - a new rocket is needed for every mission, whereas the latest American vehicles ...

Watch: The hot-fire test was a key milestone in the development of the rocket The hot-fire test, on Tuesday, saw engineers take a representative engineering model of the Ariane-6 through a ...

On Wednesday, the agency showed off its mock-ups of the LISA spacecraft, called the Engineering Development Unit Telescope.

Ariane 6 is configured to fly with either a single pair or two pairs of P120C strap-on solid rocket boosters, which produce a major percentage of the total thrust at liftoff. Each booster contains ...

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 […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

But, scientists are now having to figure out what to use whilst they wait for the Ariane-6 rocket to be completed. Engineers first created Ariane-5 in the 1980s with the aim of using it to launch ...