The launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket with the EchoStar 18 and BRIsat communications satellites is being delayed to Friday due to an anomaly with an umbilical connection of the 55-meter tall launch vehicle. Friday’s launch window opens at 20:30 UTC and extends until 21:40 UTC.
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The launch of Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse is being delayed from Wednesday due to technical issues encountered prior to the rollout of the 53-meter tall rocket on Tuesday.
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A Soyuz rocket raced into the early morning skies over French Guiana on Tuesday carrying a pair of Galileo satellites into orbit in the continuing deployment of Europe’s Galileo Satellite Navigation System that is set to begin initial services by the end of the year.
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A Soyuz rocket raced into the early morning skies over French Guiana on Tuesday carrying a pair of Galileo satellites into orbit in the continuing deployment of Europe’s Navigation Satellite System that is set to begin initial services by the end of the year.
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A Soyuz rocket has been assembled for launch from the Guiana Space Center on Tuesday, set to lift the next two Galileo satellites into orbit in the continued deployment of Europe’s Navigation Satellite Constellation.
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Finally lifting off on its fourth launch attempt, a Russian-built Soyuz rocket successfully carried Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite into orbit on Monday ahead of a four-hour secondary mission to deliver the French MicroSCOPE satellite and three University CubeSats.
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A Russian-built Soyuz rocket topped by a Fregat Upper Stage lifted off from French Guiana on Monday on a long mission to deliver Europe’s Sentinel-1B environmental monitoring satellite, the French MicroSCOPE fundamental physics experiment satellite, and three small CubeSats from European universities into custom orbits .
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Finally lifting off on its fourth launch attempt, a Russian-built Soyuz rocket successfully carried Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite into orbit on Monday ahead of a four-hour secondary mission to deliver the French MicroSCOPE satellite and three University CubeSats.
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The launch of Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite atop a Russian Soyuz rocket was scrubbed on Sunday in the last hour of the countdown due to a technical issue with the 46-meter tall rocket.
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The launch of Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite atop a Russian-built Soyuz rocket was delayed on Friday due to poor weather at the ELS Launch Site of the Guiana Space Center.
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A Soyuz rocket stands tall at its equatorial launch site in French Guiana for liftoff on Friday with the Sentinel-1B radar satellite to join Europe’s Copernicus satellite constellation dedicated to Earth observation.
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Europe’s workhorse rocket conducted a rare single-payload launch on Wednesday, lifting the Intelsat 29e communications satellite to an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit to begin an “Epic” mission as part of Intelsat’s new and improved communications architecture.
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Europe’s workhorse rocket conducted a rare single-payload launch on Wednesday, lifting the Intelsat 29e communications satellite to an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit to begin an “Epic” mission as part of Intelsat’s new and improved communications architecture.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse conducted a rare single-payload launch on Wednesday, lifting the Intelsat 29e satellite into an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Galileo Satellites 11 & 12 received an on-target orbital injection on Thursday by their Soyuz / Fregat launch vehicle as seen in orbital data for the two latest additions to Europe’s navigation satellite fleet.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Thursday, lifting a pair of European Galileo Navigation Satellites into a Medium Earth Orbit 23,200 Kilometers high in a mission lasting close to four hours.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center on December 17, 2015 on a mission to deliver the 11th and 12th Galileo Navigation Satellites to orbit as the year-closing mission from the tropical launch site.
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