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MetOp-SG-A1 was launched on August 13 aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European Spaceport in French Guiana.
France has several large companies in the aerospace sector, including Ariane Group, Ariane Space, Airbus Defense and Space, and Thales Alenia Space.
The launch of Ariane 6 took place on 12 August at 9:37 p.m. (2:37 a.m. on 13 August Paris time).
Ariane 6 launched the Metop-SGA1 satellite for the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat).
The Ariane-6 rocket launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on August 13, 2025, at 2:37 AM CEST.
ESA awarded ArianeGroup a contract for Themis in 2020 with initial expectations for more advanced flight testing than the current hop-test schedule.
ArianeGroup shipped the Themis demonstrator from a factory in France to the Esrange Space Center in Sweden for its first hop tests.
ESA awarded ArianeGroup a contract for Themis in 2020 with the original expectation that the vehicle would be ready for full suborbital flight tests as early as 2023.
MaiaSpace, an ArianeGroup subsidiary, is developing a small launch vehicle with a reusable first stage powered by the Prometheus engine and is working toward a first launch likely starting with an expendable first stage as soon as next year.
ArianeGroup shipped the Themis demonstrator from a factory in France to the Esrange Space Center in Sweden, a journey of more than 3,000 kilometers that took two weeks.
MaiaSpace, an ArianeGroup subsidiary, is developing a small launch vehicle with a reusable first stage powered by Prometheus and is targeting a first launch possibly starting with an expendable first stage as soon as next year.
After payload separation, the Ariane-6 is designed to perform a final ignition to minimize space debris.
The Ariane-6 rocket is designed to launch missions to low Earth orbits and deep space and can weigh nearly 900 tons at launch.
The Ariane-6 rocket has a modular design and is over 60 meters tall.
The 2025 manifest includes the first flight of the Ariane 64, the four-strapped-booster version of Ariane 6.
Arianespace planned more than five Ariane 6 launches in 2026.
Europe experienced a launcher gap caused by delays in Ariane 6, retirement of Ariane 5, loss of access to Soyuz after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the grounding of Vega C after a failure in late 2022.
The Ariane 6 upper-stage deorbit glitch would not have prevented payloads from being deployed into their planned orbits on an operational mission.
Arianespace has planned five Ariane 6 launches for 2025.
Had the Ariane 6 upper stage deorbit burn glitch occurred on an operational mission, it would not have prevented payloads from being deployed into their planned orbits.