The satellite will provide data on climate variables such as ozone, air quality and greenhouse gases. The European Space Agency has cleared another hurdle on the road to launching the second ...

It was likely from the launch of an ESA Ariane 6 rocket, which blasted off shortly after 4 p.m. Multiple people in Massachusetts reported seeing a swirl in the sky Tuesday evening. It was likely from ...

The most likely explanation for the light is that it was caused by one of two rockets that were launched on Tuesday night. The European Space Agency launched the Ariane 6 rocket — a weather and ...

A troubled European rocket critical to the continent’s goal of reducing its reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX thundered off a launchpad and delivered a satellite into space on a third-ever mission ...

Europe’s Copernicus program notched a significant milestone recently with the successful launch of Sentinel-1D, the final satellite in the first generation of the Sentinel-1 radar Earth-observing ...

Following a successful pilot phase, Fraunhofer IWU and the European Space Agency (ESA) are now rolling out four sensor groups to all Ariane production sites as part of the SmartSENS project. “The goal ...

Liftoff occurred at 8:37 p.m. ET tonight (Aug. 12). Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and climate satellite to orbit.

The Guiana Space Center in South America remains Europe’s main orbital launch port, while a dozen more sites are planned or advancing across the European Union and the U.K. Ando ...