An Ariane 6 lifts off Aug. 12 carrying the MetOp-SG-A1 weather satellite. Credit: SA-CNES-ARIANESPACE-ArianeGroup/Optique vidéo du CSG – S. Martin SALT LAKE CITY — An Ariane 6 successfully launched a ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just launched an advanced European weather satellite and aced its landing on a ship at sea. The Falcon 9 lifted off from historic Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...

A Falcon 9 lifts off from Florida July 1 carrying the MTG-S1 weather satellite. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 launched a European satellite July 1 with a dual mission to collect weather data ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Despite an unfavorable forecast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off as scheduled at 5:04 p.m. Tuesday, carrying a weather satellite for a European organization. The Eumetsat ...

Arianespace has completed the second commercial Ariane 6 flight, deploying the first of Europe’s next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites and augmenting its Copernicus Earth monitoring system ...

DARMSTADT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The first of EUMETSAT’s Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites became fully operational today. MTG-Imager 1 also receives a new name – Meteosat-12 – to mark ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --The European Space Agency launched its fourth satellite on Tuesday as part of a broader weather-monitoring mission to aid disaster-response teams, climate scientists and governmental ...

DARMSTADT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening its resilience to extreme weather events with the successful launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder ...

The first images from the European Space Agency’s MTG-S satellite offer an early look at how the mission will improve weather forecasting across Europe and Northern Africa. Reading time 3 minutes What ...

The European Space Agency has transmitted data at 2.6 gigabits per second from an aircraft to a geostationary satellite roughly 36,000 km away, marking the first time a laser link at gigabit speeds ...

Liftoff of the MTG-S1 mission occurred today (July 1) at 5:04 p.m. ET. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --Europe's Ariane 6 rocket sent a weather and climate satellite to orbit on Tuesday night. The Ariane 6 took off at 8:37 p.m. EDT from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in its ...