text:  You're listening to News Hour Now. Europe's hoping to regain independent access to space later today with the launch of its big new rocket, Ariane 6. Ever since its predecessor, Ariane 5, was retired a year ago, the European Space Agency has had to rely on Elon Musk's SpaceX to send satellites into orbit. If successful, the new rocket will resume those operations, and in fact it's been designed to put several satellites into different orbits on a single mission.