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Following a profound transformation of the space industry over the last decade, the European model, based mainly on public support, has become obsolete in an emerging economy where the US, China and India are thriving. "This model is no longer adequate for today's global, competitive space economy," says the EU's latest report on the single market, by former Italian president Enrico Letta. Most industrial resources are now concentrated in a few countries and companies with the capacity to build, launch and operate large space systems, which hinders growth and fragments Europe's potential in th...
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Boeing's company’s Starliner capsule was due to rocket away at midday with a pair of test pilots to the International Space Station for a weeklong stay. The test drive should have happened years ago. But problems kept piling up, most recently a leak that went unnoticed until the first launch attempt with a crew in early May. NASA wants a backup to SpaceX, which has been flying astronauts for four years. United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket is providing the lift from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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What's Ariane 6 like? What's new about it? What space adventures await? Euronews' Marta Rodríguez Martínez and David Walsh travel to the European space station in Kourou, French Guiana, to learn all about it. Ariane 6: What's New?The last Ariane 5 rocket completed its final mission on July 5, 2023, after 27 years in service. The development of its successor Ariane 6 began almost a decade ago. "During those nine years in which we developed Ariane 6, we introduced changes with a prime contractor and the industrialist to better serve evolving needs," explains Lucía Linares, the European Space Age...
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A Russian Soyuz rocket took off to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted last minute. The launch was originally planned for Thursday but was halted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled lift-off. Head of Russia's space agency, Yuri Borisov, said a voltage drop in a power source triggered the abort. The space capsule atop the rocket separated and went into orbit eight minutes after the launch and began a two-day, 34-orbit trip to the space station. If the launch had gone as scheduled on Thursday, the journey would have b...
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Russia called off the scheduled launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station just moments before takeoff on Thursday, but officials confirmed the crew was safe. The Russian Soyuz rocket, set to launch from the Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan, which Russia leases, was meant to transport NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Oleg Novitsky from Roscosmos, and Marina Vasilevskaya from Belarus. An automatic safety system halted the launch approximately 20 seconds before the planned liftoff at 1321 GMT. Both Russia's Roscosmos space corporation and NASA confirmed the crew's safety, with Rosco...
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