ArianeGroup, a joint venture between Airbus and Safran, is a key industrial player in the European space sector, specializing in the development and manufacture of civil and military space launchers. As the prime contractor for the Ariane 6 launcher, it provides propulsion systems, equipment, and services for space vehicles and satellites. The company also develops future space transportation solutions and is involved in defense systems, including the French oceanic deterrent force M51 strategic missile.
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ispace engineers have been working at the Ariane Group facility in Lampoldshausen alongside Ariane Group personnel since early June 2021.
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.
ispace’s Mission 1 lander is being assembled and tested in an ArianeGroup facility in Germany.
The Prometheus combustion chamber is entirely built using 3D printing at ArianeGroup’s Ottobrunn site in Germany.
The European Space Agency awarded ArianeGroup a €135 million contract to continue development of Prometheus reusable engine demonstrators.
ArianeGroup completed the final qualification tests of the Ariane 6 upper stage Auxiliary Power Unit at its Vernon, France site.
The analysis will consider already awarded contracts to ArianeGroup, Avio, and Rocket Factory Augsburg, a subsidiary of OHB SE.
ArianeGroup employs 550 highly qualified employees at its Bremen site, of whom about 100 are producing components for Ariane 6 in a building equipped with industry 4.0 manufacturing process and integration technologies.
ArianeGroup completed final assembly of the first Ariane 6 upper stage in October 2020 and completed hydraulic, electrical, and avionics functional testing at its Bremen site.
ArianeGroup CEO André-Hubert Roussel and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed an agreement preparatory to testing the Prometheus rocket engine at the Vernon site in Normandy.
ArianeGroup received a €33 million contract from the European Space Agency to begin the first development phase for the Themis reusable rocket stage demonstrator.
ArianeGroup is expected to oversee casting of the P120C boosters for the Ariane 6 maiden flight in the first quarter of 2021.
Avio’s P120C booster serves as the first stage of Vega C and as a strap-on booster for Ariane 6, which ArianeGroup is producing.
ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency do not expect Ariane 6 to launch until at least the second half of 2021.
ArianeGroup increased the Ariane 5's payload capacity by 300 kg since 2016.
ArianeGroup is supplying two independent propulsion systems for the HAKUTO-R lander: a main propulsion system equipped with an apogee engine and bi-propellant thrusters, and a Reaction Control System consisting of hydrazine thrusters.
ArianeGroup built the Ariane 5 rocket and increased its payload capacity by 85 kg as one of the last upgrades before its replacement by Ariane 6 in 2021.
ArianeGroup, a joint venture of Airbus and Safran, is the prime contractor building Ariane 6 for the European Space Agency.
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%.
ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency have not provided a new launch date for Ariane 6.