By Paul Scott Anderson, on March 15th, 2017
Artist’s conception of the Venera-D spacecraft in orbit around Venus. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Last week, AmericaSpace reported on why NASA should return to Venus, and new technology being developed to help make that happen, especially as in longer-lived landers or rovers. With its extremely hostile conditions, Venus has been much less of a […]
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By Emily Carney, on February 11th, 2015 AND IT’S OFF: A Vega launch vehicle lofts ESA’s IXV spaceplane to its suborbital mission. Photo Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja
It wasn’t Superman, but a spaceplane; however, it sure appeared to travel “faster than a speeding bullet,” as it cleared the pad in four seconds.
At 13:40 GMT (8:40 EST) today, the flight of […]
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By Emily Carney, on January 26th, 2015 Fueling IXV: “The IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is being prepared for launch at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. IXV will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega rocket, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere. In the process, IXV will gather […]
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By Emily Carney, on July 20th, 2014 From the European Space Agency (ESA): “[The IXV] will be launched by ESA in 2014 on Vega, Europe’s new small launcher, into a suborbital path, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. After being launched into space, IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, testing brand-new European atmospheric reentry technologies […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 18th, 2013 Artist’s concept of the Gaia mission. Image Credit: ESA
After many delays, the European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to launch its ambitious Gaia mission to observe and catalog around 1 billion astronomical objects—or approximately 1 percent of the entire population of our Milky Way Galaxy—on Thursday, 19 December. Liftoff of the $1.2 […]
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By Ben Evans, on October 9th, 2013 The cryotechnic main stage and its French-built Vulcain-2 engine are raised to the vertical in the Launcher Integration Building (BIL) at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. Launch of Flight VA-216 is scheduled for mid-December. Photo Credit: CNES/Arianespace
It has been a busy year for Arianespace—the French-led launch services organization, which […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 7th, 2013 Arianespace’s Vega VV-02 mission launches into steady rain at 11:06 p.m. Kourou time, Monday (2:06 a.m. UTC Tuesday). Photo Credit: Arianespace
Following Friday’s scrubbed launch attempt, due to high winds at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace has successfully launched its second Vega lightweight booster to deploy three satellites into […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 4th, 2013 Arianespace’s Vega VV-02 stands ready at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, primed for liftoff. Friday night’s opening attempt was scrubbed due to high winds. Photo Credit: ESA/Arianespace
High winds put paid to an attempt last night to launch Arianespace’s second Vega lightweight booster from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, […]
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By Ben Evans, on May 2nd, 2013 Arianespace’s Vega VV-02 stands ready at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, primed for Friday night’s scheduled liftoff. Photo Credit: ESA/Arianespace
The European Arianespace organization is ready to launch its second Vega lightweight rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, late Friday evening. The 98-foot-tall, four-stage vehicle will carry three payloads—including Estonia’s […]
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By Christopher Paul, on January 13th, 2013 This is an artist’s rendering of the debris belt around the star Vega. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Scientists working with data from both NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have confirmed the detection of an asteroid-belt-like debris belt around the nearby star Vega.
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