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Environmental satellite with ‘color vision’ lands in French Guiana
Wrapped inside a protective shipping container, Europe's Sentinel 2A land imaging satellite flew from Germany to French Guiana this week aboard an Antonov transport plane to prepare for launch aboard a Vega rocket in June.
Ariane 5 launch postponed by faulty connector
Arianespace has postponed this week's launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with two European communications satellites to replace a faulty fluid connector between the launcher and its mobile launch platform, officials said Tuesday.
VideoLook back at Friday’s Soyuz launch from the Amazon
Two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation network lifted off at sunset Friday aboard a Soyuz rocket from a tropical launch pad at the edge of South America's Amazon rainforest. Look back at the picturesque liftoff with a video replay and launch photos.
Two new satellites join Europe’s fledgling navigation network
A Soyuz rocket soared into orbit after firing off a launch pad in the Amazon jungle Friday, deploying two satellites nearly 15,000 miles above Earth to expand Europe's Galileo system helping locate automobiles, airliners, and millions of other users around the world.
Managers confident ahead of critical launch for Galileo navigation system
Confident in technical and procedural fixes implemented since a launch in August left two Galileo satellites in the wrong orbit, officials with Europe's navigation program say Friday's liftoff of two identical craft on a Soyuz rocket will try to fill the same slots in the fleet as targeted by last year's failed mission.
Live coverage: Soyuz lifts off from French Guiana
A Soyuz rocket lifted off Friday from a jungle spaceport in South America with two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation network. The four-hour launch sequence began with blastoff at 2146 GMT (5:46 p.m. EDT).
Vega wins contract to launch Peruvian military satellite
Arianespace will pair a Peruvian military reconnaissance satellite with a package of four commercial Skybox Earth imaging spacecraft on a Vega rocket launch in 2016.
VideoSoyuz/Galileo launch timeline
Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.
Photos: Galileo navigation satellites added to Soyuz rocket
Twin satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system were raised on top of a Russian-made Soyuz rocket late Tuesday and installed for Friday's launch from French Guiana to expand the growing network of spacecraft nearly 15,000 miles above Earth.
Soyuz launch double-header set for Friday
Russian launch crews on two continents are putting the final touches on a pair of Soyuz rockets scheduled to blast off less than two hours apart Friday -- one carrying a three-man crew to the space station, and another boosting two European navigation satellites into orbit from the Amazon jungle.