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On April 26, ESA announced the start of the launch campaign for the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
Ariane 6 is reaching final milestones leading up to its first flight, enabling the envisaged resumption of Galileo constellation deployment from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana in 2025.
Ariane 5 retired in summer 2023 without a replacement source for Galileo launches.
Twenty-eight Galileo satellites had launched to date prior to the Galileo L12 mission, all of them on Russian-built Soyuz rockets or Europe’s Ariane 5.
The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management from ESA, CNES, ArianeGroup, and Arianespace.
Ariane 6's upper stage restart capability tailors Europe's launch capability for multiple payload missions.
The success of the last hot firing test concluded the hot-firing test campaign on the Ariane 6 upper stage.
The Ariane 6 flight model-1 central core was transferred to the launch pad and lifted to its vertical launch position for further assembly.
Ariane 6 is designed to succeed Ariane 5 as Europe's heavy-lift launch system.
The passengers for the first Ariane 6 are set to arrive ready for integration in May 2024.
ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup are targeting the first launch of Ariane 6 between June 15 and July 31, 2024.
The two boosters for the Ariane 6 flight model-1 were transported to the launch zone on April 25 and 26, 2023.
The last hot firing test of the Ariane 6 upper stage was completed successfully on April 12, 2023 at the German Aerospace Center DLR P5.2 test stand in Lampoldshausen.
The final qualification review of the complete Ariane 6 launcher system is to be delivered after a four-week intensive work.
The last hot firing test aimed to gather further data for future Ariane 6 missions after its inaugural flight.
Ariane 5 flew 117 times between 1996 and 2023 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Ariane 6 is planned to launch in June–July 2024.
ArianeGroup used a DLR-operated test stand to perform a successful full-duration test of the Ariane 6 upper stage in September 2023.
Thales Alenia Space in Italy is leading a consortium for ExoMars 2028 that includes Airbus Defence & Space (UK), ArianeGroup (France), OHB (Germany), and ALTEC (Italy).
Ariane 6 is planned to launch in June–July 2024.