SPACE reports “Europe’s most powerful rocket flew again today (Aug. 27). An Ariane 6 launched the MTG-I2 weather satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today (Aug. 27) at 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT; 5:10 p.m. local time in Kourou), right at the beginning of a 2.5-hour window.”
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Ariane 6 rocket launches weather satellite August 27, 2026 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. (Launch occurs at the 0:12 mark)
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Space News reports that the new Vega C medium-lift rocket took off on its maiden flight Wednesday, “carrying an Italian physics satellite and six cubesats.” The Vega C was launched from the ESA facility in Kourou, French Guiana at 9:13 a.m. EST “at the end of a two-hour launch window. Technical issues had twice halted the countdown sequence.” The primary payload was the 295-kilogram Laser Relativity Satellite-2 (LARES-2), placed “in an unusual inclined orbit at 5,893 kilometers to test Einstein’s theory of General Relativity.”
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First launch of the ESA’s new Vega-C launch vehicle, July 13, 2022
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