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The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,000 employees. ESA's space flight programme includes human spaceflight (mainly through participation in the International Space Station program); the launch and operation of unmanned exploration missions to other planets and the Moon; Earth observation, science and telecommunication; designing launch vehicles; and maintaining a major spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana.
Maiden Flight of the Ariane 62 launch vehicle, carrying ten cubesats, two deployers, five experiments, and two reentry capsules.
Height 63.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 5000 kg
Liftoff Thrust 10370 kN
Diameter 5.40 Meters
Mass To LEO 10350 kg
Liftoff Mass 530 Tonnes
Launch Success 1
Consecutive Success 1
Maiden Flight 2024-07-09
Launch Failures 0
Nosu
2024-07-09T23:18:24+0000
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
2024-07-09T19:00:22+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2024-07-09T18:01:30+0000
Official Webcast by European Space Agency, ESA has started
Nosu
2024-07-09T14:00:55+0000
T-0 delayed by an hour
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-07-03T17:15:59+0000
Updated launch window.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-06-25T11:48:21+0000
Added launch window.
Nosu
2024-06-05T07:49:40+0000
Targeting July 9
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-05-21T09:13:20+0000
NET early July.
Nosu
2023-11-30T08:10:41+0000
Targeting between June 15 and July 31, 2024
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-11T22:41:32+0000
NET April-May 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-09T10:50:28+0000
NET Q2 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-04-18T23:53:14+0000
NET 2024
Nosu
2022-10-19T16:46:17+0000
Delayed to Q4 2023
Cosmic_Penguin
2022-06-13T09:58:33+0000
NET 2023 (at 3:30 mark)
Nosu
2022-06-01T15:38:02+0000
TBD towards the end of 2022
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ESA is hosting a press conference in preparation for the first flight of Ariane 6. Participants include: - Toni Tolker-Nielsen, Director of Space Transportation, ESA - Carine Leveau, Director of Space Transporation, CNES - Franck Huiban, Head of Civil Programs, ArianeGroup - Caroline Arnoux, Head of Ariane 6 Program, Arianespace
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Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General will outline the progress achieved after the successful hot firing test on 23 November 2023 at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, as well as the upcoming steps in the Ariane 6 development test campaign, including the tentative launch period for Ariane 6 together with: - Martin Sion, CEO, ArianeGroup. - Philippe Baptiste, President, CNES. - Stéphane Israël, CEO, Arianespace
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The Ariane 6 combined tests article will perform a full 8-minutes duration static fire of its core stage as part of the launcher's qualification campaign.
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Heads of ESA, ArianeGroup, CNES and Arianespace will answer media questions on the progress towards the first flight of Europe’s new Ariane 6 launch vehicle and will outline the broader plan for European space transportation in the latter part of this decade.
2024-10-14T12:00:00+0000
SpaceNews
2024-09-16T14:19:17+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-09-16T13:20:55+0000
SpaceNews
2024-09-16T12:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-25T17:30:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-24T11:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-23T05:54:45+0000
SpaceNews
2024-07-19T10:46:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-19T10:44:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-19T10:39:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-16T12:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-15T12:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-12T16:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-12T11:00:30+0000
Arstechnica
2024-07-11T18:09:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-11T17:59:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-11T14:20:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-11T14:20:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-10T21:04:21+0000
NASA
2024-07-10T16:06:03+0000
Space Scout
2024-07-10T11:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-10T09:54:05+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-07-10T01:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T23:50:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T23:25:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T22:10:04+0000
SpacePolicyOnline.com
2024-07-09T21:55:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T21:33:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T21:30:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T20:48:04+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-07-09T20:10:54+0000
SpaceNews
2024-07-09T19:14:46+0000
CNBC
2024-07-09T16:41:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T15:15:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T15:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T13:06:32+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-07-09T11:25:20+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-07-09T02:18:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-09T02:18:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-08T19:51:31+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-07-08T17:31:00+0000
Space Scout
2024-07-08T16:12:20+0000
NASA
2024-07-08T16:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-08T11:41:39+0000
SpaceNews
2024-07-08T10:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-07T17:23:13+0000
Spaceflight Now
2024-07-06T05:50:19+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-07-05T12:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-04T17:21:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-04T17:09:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-04T13:15:00+0000
ESA
2024-07-04T09:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-28T13:15:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-28T10:20:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-26T16:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-25T12:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-21T19:35:00+0000
The Launch Pad
2024-06-21T17:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-21T16:58:20+0000
SpaceNews
2024-06-21T16:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-21T05:55:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-18T12:00:00+0000
ESA
2024-06-09T00:11:00+0000
The Launch Pad
2024-06-06T03:44:11+0000
SpaceNews
2024-06-05T07:26:11+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-05-24T12:00:43+0000
Arstechnica
2024-05-21T11:31:37+0000
SpaceNews
2024-04-27T19:03:29+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-04-01T06:00:20+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-02-22T08:35:13+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-02-07T21:35:58+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-02-01T07:27:10+0000
European Spaceflight
2024-01-20T07:23:23+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-12-20T12:36:44+0000
SpaceNews
2023-12-20T08:25:50+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-12-18T07:37:09+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-12-01T20:46:52+0000
NASASpaceflight
2023-12-01T01:50:08+0000
SpacePolicyOnline.com
2023-11-30T18:42:00+0000
The Launch Pad
2023-11-30T12:31:52+0000
SpaceNews
2023-11-30T10:01:54+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-11-27T11:00:00+0000
Space Scout
2023-11-14T13:19:10+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-10-20T11:00:37+0000
Arstechnica
2023-10-19T21:25:49+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-10-12T15:26:59+0000
Arstechnica
2023-09-22T07:35:45+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-09-21T16:29:37+0000
The Launch Pad
2023-09-06T22:20:50+0000
SpacePolicyOnline.com
2023-09-06T14:35:20+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-09-06T10:47:00+0000
SpaceNews
2023-09-05T16:29:14+0000
Arstechnica
2023-09-04T17:23:43+0000
SpaceNews
2023-09-02T06:14:50+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-08-30T19:11:30+0000
The Launch Pad
2023-08-30T14:28:17+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-08-30T11:45:28+0000
SpaceNews
2023-08-09T20:56:29+0000
SpaceNews
2023-08-08T15:49:00+0000
The Launch Pad
2023-08-04T11:00:16+0000
Arstechnica
2023-06-26T10:39:43+0000
European Spaceflight
2023-05-15T21:57:08+0000
NASASpaceflight
2023-05-12T14:53:42+0000
Arstechnica
2023-05-11T20:42:41+0000
SpaceNews
2022-10-28T11:00:34+0000
Arstechnica
2022-10-19T18:20:59+0000
NASASpaceflight
2022-10-19T16:57:55+0000
SpaceNews
2022-06-16T19:04:27+0000
Arstechnica
2022-06-13T19:42:46+0000
SpaceNews
2022-06-01T14:43:48+0000
SpaceNews
2021-11-19T20:22:04+0000
SpaceNews
2021-10-29T16:01:31+0000
NASASpaceflight
2020-10-29T20:25:23+0000
SpaceNews