Varda flies navigation payload, heat shield tests on sixth reentry mission

MILAN — The European Space Agency has launched the first two satellites of the Celeste in-orbit demonstration mission from New Zealand aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launcher on March 28. The two satellites were launched at 10:14 CET and separated from the launcher about an hour later into a quasi-polar low Earth orbit at 510 […]The post ESA launches first Celeste satellites to test complementary LE