A milestone over 22 years in the making. Tuesday saw the Ariane 5 rocket conduct its 100th flight, placing two telecommunications satellites into orbit in the process. The Ariane 5, managed ...

While SpaceX managed to get its hulk of a Starship rocket off the ground on Thursday, the upper-stage spacecraft ...

ArianeGroup's upper stage engine generates a vacuum thrust of around 180 kilonewtons ... Initially, the engine was to be used in the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution (ME). At the ESA Ministerial Council ...

The Aestus upper stage engine was tested on the P4.2. The engine delivers a thrust of around 27.5 kilonewtons and is powered by dinitrogen tetroxide (N 2 O 4) as an oxidizer and mono-methyl hydrazine ...

Evolving from Ariane’s currently in-house fleet of Ariane 5 and Vega, the new rockets will ... while the improved Vinci upper stage will allow for additional orbital destinations for more ...