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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The LRBs would have been derived from the Themis reusable booster demonstrator, which ArianeGroup is developing under an ESA contract.
The proposed evolution of Ariane 6 would use reusable boosters derived from a rocket being developed by MaiaSpace, a subsidiary of ArianeGroup.
ArianeGroup’s submission proposed substituting solid-fuel expendable boosters of Ariane 6 with boosters that could be recovered and reused.
ArianeGroup completed the inaugural flight of its SyLEx suborbital vehicle in 2025 under a contract with France's Directorate General of Armaments.
ArianeGroup entered 2025 having completed just a single flight of its Ariane 6 rocket following an anomaly during its inaugural flight.
ArianeGroup's ASTRALIS will provide advanced transport and refuelling capabilities for missions to space, in space, and back to Earth.
ArianeGroup plans to present its ASTRALIS carrier spacecraft at the European Commission's In-Space Operations and Services (ISOS) Strategic Forum in Munich.
The European Space Agency awarded ArianeGroup a €90 million contract in July 2021 for the development of an ASTRIS kick stage as part of the Ariane 6 Competitiveness Improvement Programme.
ArianeGroup describes ASTRALIS as an efficient logistics spacecraft for a future European in-space operations system.
ArianeGroup announced the launch of SyLEx in a press release.
This is the second component mock-up produced by Loiretech for ArianeGroup, following the delivery of a front heat shield mock-up in July.
Loiretech delivered a full-scale mock-up of the rear heat shield structure to ArianeGroup on 2 December.
ArianeGroup is part of the industrial team for the ExoMars mission and is responsible for elements of the mission’s thermal protection system.
Jérôme Bertrand, ArianeGroup ExoMars Programme Manager, confirmed that Loiretech would not be responsible for the flight-ready models.
Loiretech has delivered a second component of a mock-up of the ExoMars heat shield to ArianeGroup’s facilities in Saint-Médard-en-Jalles.
For this mission, SyLEx carried an ArianeGroup experimental payload designed to integrate and demonstrate new technologies in flight.
ArianeGroup announced the successful first flight of its SyLEx flight test system on November 28, 2025.
Development of the SyLEx system by ArianeGroup began in 2021.
ArianeGroup teams designed and built SyLEx in under three years using test-and-learn methods.
The maiden flight of the SyLEx system carried an experimental payload developed by ArianeGroup for technological integration and demonstration.