PARIS (AP) — An Ariane 6 rocket roared skyward with a French military reconnaissance satellite aboard Thursday in the first commercial flight for the European heavy-lift launcher.

he first commercially built rocket to lift off from continental ... to compete with SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 and the Ariane family of rockets used by the European Space Agency (ESA).

KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) -- Western Europe's 131st Ariane rocket placed communications satellites in orbit for Brazil and Egypt after a textbook launch from equatorial French Guiana on ...

The European heavy-lift rocket has been launching things like satellites and telescopes into orbit around Earth since 1996. Ariane-5's final mission involved taking two telecoms satellites into space.

An Ariane 6 rocket has roared skyward with a French military reconnaissance satellite aboard in the first commercial flight for the European heavy-lift launcher PARIS (AP) — An Ariane 6 rocket ...