Europe's space industry is set to reopen for business with the first-ever commercial launch of Ariane 6 today.

A 'dysfunctional valve' was detected minutes before the scheduled launch on Monday of the rocket, which is to carry a French military satellite into space.

The first commercial mission of Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 has been rescheduled for Thursday, French company Arianespace announced, after an "anomaly" forced a last-minute postponement. But minutes before Monday's blast off from Europe's spaceport in Kourou,

Europe's new heavy-lift rocket Ariane 6 is set to carry out its first commercial mission on Monday as Europe seeks to secure independent access to space amid a shock rapprochement between Moscow and Washington.

The European Ariane 6 rocket took off for its first commercial mission on Thursday after several delays, helping the continent’s efforts to reduce its reliance on Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël has said that Ariane 6 is key to “giving Europe an autonomous access to space,” despite delays that pushed its debut from 2020 all the way to 2024. Now it’s made a second successful launch,

Launch of European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 rocket Watch live launch coverage from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana of the European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 rocket. This is the first commercial flight of Ariane 6,