The engine did not fire, but this fringe failure hardly diminished the orbit-shifting accomplishment ... satellite laboratory into orbit. Another space vehicle performed equally agilely.

Programs such as IRIS², Europe’s $10 billion-plus multi-orbit broadband initiative, also reflect a shift toward integrating commercial space into defense — a ‘dual-use’ strategy that has ...

The official launch webcast featured, after the successful deployment of the satellite, congratulatory remarks by Philippe Baptiste, former head of the French space agency CNES who is currently ...