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Ariane 6 first flight - clean feed (Official broadcast)

Liftoff is now scheduled no earlier than 16:00 local time (21:00 CEST), with the live stream starting at 15:30 local time (20:30 CEST).This is a big moment f...

Premier vol d'Ariane 6 (Diffusion officielle)

Liftoff is now scheduled no earlier than 16:00 local time (21:00 CEST), with the live stream starting at 15:30 local time (20:30 CEST).This is a big moment f...

Erstflug der Ariane 6 (Offizielle Übertragung)

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Ariane

Ariane

Maiden Flight

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Test Flight

Low Earth Orbit Ariane Launch Area 4 Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Maiden Flight of the Ariane 62 launch vehicle, carrying ten cubesats, two deployers, five experiments, and two reentry capsules.

Updates

Nosu • July 9, 2024, 11:18 p.m.

Successful maiden flight of Ariane 6 from liftoff to payload separation in orbit.
An APU anomaly prevented the deorbit burn from happening, the reentry capsules will therefore remain attached to the second stage in orbit.


Nosu • July 9, 2024, 7 p.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • July 9, 2024, 6:01 p.m.

Official Webcast by European Space Agency, ESA has started


Nosu • July 9, 2024, 2 p.m.

T-0 delayed by an hour


Cosmic_Penguin • July 3, 2024, 5:15 p.m.

Updated launch window.


Ariane 62

Family:
Configuration: 62

The Ariane 6 family is currently under development by the European Space Agency, with two variations including the Ariane 62 with two solid boosters intended for government and scientific missions.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    63.0 m
  • Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Launch Mass
    530.0 T
  • Thrust
    10370.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ariane 62
  • Family
  • Variant
    62
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Ariane 62
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $85000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    10350.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    5000.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    6450.0 kg

ArianeGroup

ArianeGroup

(AG)

CEO: Martin Sion Founded: 2015 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) is an aerospace company based in France. A joint venture between Airbus and Safran, the company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux. It consists of three core arms: aerospace, defence and security.

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