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Arianespace will launch a small geostationary communications satellite for Intelsat on an Ariane 6 in 2026.
Many Kuiper launches will use an upgraded version of Ariane 6’s solid-fuel boosters that will increase payload performance and allow each launch to carry as many as 40 satellites.
Amazon awarded contracts in April 2022 to Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance for up to 83 launches of Ariane 6, New Glenn, and Vulcan Centaur rockets to deploy the 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper constellation.
Arianespace and the European Space Agency plan a long-duration hot-fire test of the Ariane 6 core stage in early October following a successful short-duration hot-fire test on 2023-09-05 and an upper-stage firing test on 2023-09-01.
MaiaSpace performed a cryogenic filling test of its full-scale Upper Stage qualification model on 2023-07-26 at ArianeGroup’s test facilities in Vernon.
MaiaSpace will leverage the Prometheus engine developed by ArianeGroup on behalf of the European Space Agency for propulsion.
The Ariane 6 program is managed and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).
A full launch sequence simulation for Ariane 6 was completed on 2023-07-18 in Kourou up to ignition of the Vulcain 2.1 engine thrust chamber.
ESA plans to set a target launch period for the first Ariane 6 after the conclusion of the long-duration hot-fire test and aims for a launch not too late in 2024 if upcoming tests go well.
A second Ariane 6 core-stage hot-fire test is scheduled for 2023-10-03 where the Vulcain 2.1 engine will fire for 470 seconds to support final qualification of the core stage for flight.
The successful Ariane 6 core stage hot-fire test on the launch pad at the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana took place on 2023-09-05.
On 2023-09-05 teams from ArianeGroup, CNES, and ESA carried out a complete Ariane 6 launch sequence on the launch pad at the Guiana Space Center concluding with a hot-fire test of the core stage and start-up of the Vulcain 2.1 engine.
CNES, France’s space agency, operates Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the home of Ariane launchers since the first liftoff in 1979.
The full Ariane 6 upper stage including the Vinci engine and a smaller Auxiliary Power Unit was tested on a purpose-built test bench at the German Aerospace Center DLR’s engine test center in Lampoldshausen, Germany.
The Ariane 6 upper stage incorporates innovations for a wide range of launch missions, including deploying satellite constellations in low Earth orbit.
The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force reports regularly on progress towards the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6 launcher.
Engineers from DLR, ArianeGroup, and ESA completed a hot-fire test at DLR's rocket engine test center in Lampoldshausen, Germany.
European Space Agency plans to set a target launch period for the first Ariane 6 in October.
The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of management from ESA, CNES, ArianeGroup, and Arianespace.
ESA hopes the first Ariane 6 vehicle can take flight not too late into 2024.