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Space News March 7, 2025

Ariane-6 launches CSO-3: double success for France and Europe

Kourou, French Guiana, 06 March 2025 – The Airbus-built CSO-3 (Composante Spatiale Optique) Earth observation satellite for the French Armed Forces, has been successfully launched by Arianespace…

Space News July 6, 2023

SYRACUSE 4B secure military communications satellite launched

The SYRACUSE 4B communications satellite, built by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space, has been successfully launched from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,…

Space News March 18, 2022

Russian cosmonauts launched on flight to International Space Station

(Reuters) – Three Russian cosmonauts were launched on Friday on the way to the International Space Station (ISS) to continue a two-decade-plus shared Russian-U.S. presence…

Space News December 18, 2019

Airbus-built CHEOPS satellite successfully launched on Soyuz

Kourou, 18 December 2019 – The Airbus-built CHEOPS satellite has been successfully launched this morning on a Soyuz rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou,…

Space News June 21, 2019

Airbus-built T-16 satellite successfully launched on Ariane 5

Kourou, 21 June 2019 – The Airbus-built T-16 telecommunications satellite has been successfully launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. T-16 is…

Space News November 7, 2018

MetOp-C weather satellite successfully launched

Airbus-built weather satellite joins EUMETSAT´s polar orbiting fleet Three operating MetOps to further improve weather forecasting Kourou, 07 November 2018 – MetOp-C is in orbit:…

Space News June 5, 2018

Airbus-built SES-12 dual-mission satellite successfully launched

Biggest ever all-electric satellite now in space Multi-mission flexible satellite, SES-12 is the third Airbus all-electric satellite in orbit Toulouse, 04/06/2018 – SES-12, the 13th…

Space News May 23, 2018

Airbus-built GRACE-FO satellites successfully launched from California

Maps of Earth’s gravitational field will indicate movement of liquid water, ice and land masses Vandenberg/California, 23/05/2018 – Yesterday evening (21:47 CEST), the twin GRACE-FO…

Military Aviation News January 31, 2018

Airbus Helicopter H145M successfully launched 70mm Laser Guided Rockets

Donauwörth, The successful capability enhancement for the H145M continues. In the first weeks of December 2017, Airbus Helicopters demonstrated the ability to fire laser guided…

Military Aviation News September 12, 2017

Lockheed Martin Unveils a New Lightweight Canister Launched Unmanned Aircraft System

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) unveiled a new small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that has been designed and developed in the UK at the Defence and…

Space News February 15, 2017

SKY Brasil-1 satellite successfully launched by Ariane 5

Successful flight is 77th in a row for Ariane 5 launcher SKY Brasil-1, a telecommunications satellite made by Airbus Defence and Space for AT&T/DIRECTV, was…

Space News December 3, 2015

LISA Pathfinder blazes a trail en route to L1

LISA Pathfinder was successfully launched this morning from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Airbus Defence and Space built space science spacecraft begins its eight-week…

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