Last look before launch

Alphasat is seen for the last time before being encapsulated by the Ariane 5 fairing, in preparation for launch on Thursday 25 July
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Launching Alphasat

Europe's largest and most powerful telecom satellite is just two weeks from launch, and the team is busy preparing for its send-off in Kourou
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NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. IRIS will study the solar atmosphere.

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Europe bids Gaia a safe journey

ESA's billion-star surveyor, Gaia, has completed final preparations in Europe and is ready to depart for its launch site in French Guiana, set to embark on a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision.

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IRIS Launch Set For Thursday

Technicians and engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California mate the Pegasus XL rocket with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, solar observatory to the Orbital Sciences L-1011 carrier aircraft. The launch of NASA's IRIS mission has been delayed one day to 10:27 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 27.

Live NASA Television launch coverage begins at 9 p.m. IRIS will open a new window of discovery by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromospheres and transition region into the sun's corona using spectrometry and imaging. The IRIS mission will observe how solar material moves, gathers energy and heats up as it travels through a largely unexplored region of the solar atmosphere.

The interface region, located between the sun's visible surface and upper atmosphere, is where most of the sun's ultraviolet emission is generated. These emissions impact the near-Earth space environment and Earth's climate.
Image Credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin

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NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update

UP Aerospace Launches 'SpaceLoft 7' for NASA

06/21/2013 12:00 AM EDT

The NASA-funded UP Aerospace SpaceLoft 7 reusable sounding rocket launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico on June 21.

NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update

Media Invited to View UP Aerospace Launch for NASA

06/17/2013 12:00 AM EDT

The first suborbital rocket launch from Spaceport America funded by NASA's Flight Opportunities Program to carry multiple space technology payloads will launch on June 2

NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update

NASA Selects Suborbital Space Technology Payloads

NASA has selected 21 more space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft.

NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

06/11/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

ATV-4 launch

ATV-4 launch

07-06-2013 11:46 AM CEST

Sterex images of ATV-4 launch

European Space Agency Flickr Update

Ariane 5 flight VA213 lifts off with ATV-4

06-06-2013 11:13 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Ariane 5 flight VA213 lifts off with ATV-4

06-06-2013 11:13 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Ariane 5 flight VA213 lifts off with ATV-4

06-06-2013 11:13 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Kasei Valles perspective view

06-06-2013 11:08 AM CEST

Looking in the direction of flowing water from the northern flanks of Kasai Valles towards 100 km-wide Sharonov crater in the top centre, and with Sacra Mensa to the lower right.

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

Kasei Valles mosaic

06-06-2013 11:08 AM CEST

This mosaic, which features the spectacular Kasei Valles, comprises 67 images taken with the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA's Mars Express. The mosaic spans 987 km north–south (19–36°N) and 1550 km east–west (280–310°E).

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 07:44 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 07:44 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 07:44 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 02:04 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff of Ariane 5 VA213 with ATV-4

06-06-2013 01:10 AM CEST

On Wednesday 5 June 2013, Ariane 5 VA213 with the ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

For more images, please click here.

Credits : ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013

Liftoff for ATV-4

06-06-2013 12:02 AM CEST

Ariane 5 VA213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21.42 GMT 5 June 2013.

Credits: ESA/Arianespace

Liftoff for ATV-4

06-06-2013 12:02 AM CEST

Ariane 5 VA213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21.42 GMT 5 June 2013.

Credits: ESA/Arianespace

Liftoff for ATV-4

06-06-2013 12:02 AM CEST

Ariane 5 VA213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21.42 GMT 5 June 2013.

Credits: ESA/Arianespace

European Space Agency YouTube Update

ATV-4 Launch Highlights

06-06-2013 07:33 PM CEST

ESA's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, was launched into orbit on 5.6.2013 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's autonomous supply ship will perform a series of manoeuvres to dock with the International Space Station on 15 June. 

The Ariane 5 rocket, operated by Arianespace, lifted off at 21:52:11 GMT (23:52:11 CEST, 18:52:11 local time) and delivered ATV-4 into the planned circular parking orbit at 260 km altitude about 64 minutes later. ATV then deployed its four power-generating solar wings and antenna boom.

ATV-4 replay liftoff

06-06-2013 07:25 PM CEST

Replay of the liftoff of Ariane 5 VA 213 carrying ATV Albert Einstein from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 21:52 GMT. Watch the full transmission replays on our ESA website: http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/Videos/2013/06/ATV-4_launch_replay_-_Part_1 http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/Videos/2013/06/ATV-4_launch_replay_-_Part_2

Launch replay

Launch replay

06-06-2013 02:20 AM CEST

Full replay of the the launch of Ariane 5 carrying ATV Albert Einstein

NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Solar Satellite

NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Solar Satellite

06/04/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA's next scientific satellite, which is scheduled for launch June 26, will provide the most detailed look ever at the sun's lower atmosphere or interface region.

Launch replay

Launch replay

28-05-2013 11:57 PM CEST

Full replay of the launch of Soyuz with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, NASA's Karen Nyberg and Soyuz commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, 28 May, 20:31 GMT

NASA TV Coverage Set for Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Launch

NASA TV Coverage Set for Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Launch

05/17/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 28.