Ariane 6

Skyloom selected the Ariane 64 operated by Arianespace to deploy the company’s first geostationary laser communications relay node, Node-1.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has signed two contracts with ArianeGroup to deliver technology for the Ariane 6 launcher.

CNES is conducting a study examining how to launch crewed spacecraft from French Guiana using the Ariane 6 rocket.

ESA, working with prime contractor ArianeGroup and the French space agency CNES, has established an independent assessment of the schedule for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.

Solar Orbiter will launch no earlier than 2031 on an Ariane 6 rocket.

MTG-S1 will launch on an Ariane 64, the Ariane 6 configuration equipped with four solid rocket boosters.

MTG-S1, a sounding satellite that previously had a firm Ariane 5 launch contract, is scheduled to launch in 2023 on an Ariane 6 rocket.

MTG-I2, which had an Ariane 5 contract option, is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 6 rocket in 2025.

The European Space Agency confirmed on 2020-07-09 that the Ariane 6 rocket will not launch before the second half of 2021, representing a delay of at least six months.

ESA is financing 89% of the Ariane 6 rocket’s 3.6-billion-euro development, with ArianeGroup and its industry partners providing the remaining 11%.

At least half of ArianeGroup’s transition batch of 14 Ariane 6 rockets are dedicated to European government customers, including six for the European Commission’s Galileo satellites and one for the French military’s Composante Spatiale Optique-3 imaging satellite.

ArianeGroup is building 15 Ariane 6 rockets: one for the rocket’s maiden flight and 14 in bulk to cover the 2020 to 2023 transition away from the Ariane 5.

One hundred million euros of the funding will be provided as a loan to ArianeGroup to help pay for its share of the costs of developing the Ariane 6 rocket.

The loan to ArianeGroup will help finance facilities in France and Germany that will be used to produce and launch the Ariane 6 rocket.

ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.

The maiden flight of the Ariane 64 configuration with four strap-on boosters is expected by the end of 2021 and will carry a ViaSat-3 geostationary satellite.

OHB supplies structural components and tanks for the Ariane 5 and upcoming Ariane 6 rockets.

ArianeGroup manufactures the heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket and is developing the upcoming Ariane 6 rocket.