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Loading contentArianespace is a European launch service provider that markets and operates launches of the Ariane family of rockets from the Guiana Space Centre.
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Ariane 5 was a European heavy-lift launch vehicle operated by Arianespace, notable for launching the James Webb Space Telescope in 2021.
Europe's successor to Ariane 5, designed for greater flexibility and lower cost.
Europe's flagship launch-vehicle family, from the Ariane 1 of 1979 through the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the current Ariane 6.
Europe's first launcher, which established independent access to space and orbited the Giotto probe to Halley's Comet.
An uprated single-payload development of Ariane 1 with a more powerful third stage.
An Ariane variant adding two solid strap-on boosters and dual-payload capability for commercial satellites.
A highly successful and flexible Ariane variant with multiple booster configurations that dominated the commercial launch market in the 1990s.
Europe's small-lift launcher with three solid stages and a liquid upper stage, for small scientific and Earth-observation satellites.
An upgraded, more capable Vega with larger solid motors and a common booster shared with Ariane 6.
A private company that develops launch vehicles, spacecraft, or satellites — increasingly under contract to space agencies. SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, and the established aerospace primes span the field.
The American Association of Variable Star Observers — for more than a century, the organisation that gathers variable-star observations from amateurs worldwide into a single database that professional astronomers draw on. The model for how amateur and professional astronomy work together.
The Agência Espacial Brasileira is the civilian agency responsible for Brazil's space programme.
The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, which coordinates amateur observation of the Moon, the planets, comets, and asteroids — organising observing programmes and archiving the results so that amateur monitoring of the Solar System adds up to something lasting.
The Agenzia Spaziale Italiana is Italy's national space agency, a significant contributor to ESA and to international planetary science missions.
A commercial operator of a low-Earth-orbit constellation for rapid-revisit Earth imaging.
Blue Origin is an American commercial aerospace company developing reusable launch vehicles, including the suborbital New Shepard and the orbital New Glenn.
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European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.