Everything looked fine as the rocket climbed away from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Europe's normally highly dependable rocket, the Ariane 5, experienced an anomaly during its latest launch.

"A completely new rocket is not launched often, and success is far from guaranteed. I am privileged to have witnessed this historic moment when Europe's new generation of the Ariane family lifted ...

now-retired Ariane 5, notably experienced an issue with the rocket's upper stage that prevented it from performing a final deorbit burn. Tolker-Nielsen said Arianespace, which operates the ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Europe's Ariane 6 rocket was set to blast off for the ... to a decision by ESA's 22 nations in 2014 to develop a family of rockets in the face of fierce competition from Elon ...

The first flight of the Ariane 6, which succeeds the venerable, now-retired Ariane 5, notably experienced an issue with the rocket's upper stage that prevented it from performing a final deorbit burn.