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Today marks a momentous occasion for the European Space Agency (ESA) as the Ariane 6, the latest and most advanced member of the Ariane rocket family, is set to embark on its inaugural flight. This launch from the Guiana...
ESA Council adopted a resolution on European launch services and on the continuity of European access to space, that sets the way for the ESA-developed Vega launcher to be commercialised by its prime contractor, Avio.
The Vega launchers joined the...
The first launch of Ariane 6 is targeted for 9 July 2024 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher announced at the ILA Berlin Air Show today.
Josef Aschbacher was joined by the Ariane 6 Task...
The teams at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have carried out all the mechanical connections in order to join the launcher’s central core – comprising the main stage and the upper stage – to its two Equipped Solid...
The main stage and the upper stage for the inaugural Ariane 6 flight are currently in the central core final assembly line in the Launcher Assembly Building (BAL) at the ELA4 launch complex. The central core is made up of...
ArianeGroup has received a 50-million-euro agreement from the European Space Agency to continue the development of PHOEBUS, a super-light carbon composite upper stage demonstrator. This work will enable development of the next Ariane6 upper stage, by raising the maturity...
ArianeGroup has received a 50-million-euro agreement from the European Space Agency (ESA) to continue the development of PHOEBUS, a super-light carbon composite upper stage demonstrator. This work will enable development of the next Ariane6 upper stage, by raising the...
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Lampoldshausen successfully tested the upper stage of Ariane 6 for the first time on 5 October 2022.
Original article from DLR
A hot-fire test is a highly demanding...
A futuristic spacecraft built under an original and exciting cooperative agreement is taking shape in ArianeGroup’s large clean room in Lampoldshausen, Germany: the lunar lander from the Japanese start-up ispace.
ArianeGroup, which supplies components for the propulsion system, is also...
The lower and upper stages of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle for the combined tests on the launch pad have arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
The lower stage was made at ArianeGroup’s Les Mureaux site in France, and the upper stage...
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