Video: Time lapse of ATV’s final departure from ISS

One second of faulty data led to the destruction of a European spacecraft on final descent to Mars last month, officials said Wednesday.

A European satellite that will collect daily air quality measurements over every major city on Earth rode an uprated Russian ballistic missile into orbit Friday.

A Russian-built Soyuz rocket lifted off from South America at 0848 GMT (4:48 a.m. EDT) Tuesday with two new navigation satellites for Europe’s Galileo system, readying the network for initial operating capability later this year.