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The Ariane 5 launch on 2023-07-05 marked the 117th and final Ariane 5 launch from the European Spaceport in Kourou.
Arianespace operated its 347th launch with the Ariane 5 mission on 2023-07-05.
The VA261 Ariane 5 deployed Heinrich-Hertz-Satellit nearly 30 minutes after liftoff.
Ariane 5 has placed 197 satellites in geostationary orbit out of a total of 239 satellites deployed during its career.
Ariane 5 served 65 institutional and commercial customers from 30 countries over its career.
ArianeGroup leads an industrial network of more than 600 companies, including 350 small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs).
ArianeGroup delivers a flight-ready launcher on the launch pad to its subsidiary Arianespace, which markets and operates Ariane 5 from French Guiana.
Ariane 5 successfully launched the James Webb Space Telescope for NASA on 2021-12-25.
ESA originally planned the first Ariane 6 launch for 2020 but development delays have pushed the first launch by several years.
The European Space Agency regularly used Ariane 5 for science missions and for five Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo spacecraft launches to the International Space Station between 2008 and 2014.
Assembly of the first flight model of Ariane 6 is planned to begin in November in French Guiana according to an ESA update published 2023-06-08.
OHB executives said they expected the first Ariane 6 launch to take place in early 2024 and no later than May 2024.
Arianespace rescheduled the Ariane 5 launch for 2023-07-04 and then delayed it an additional day because of strong upper-level winds.
The Ariane 5 made its first, unsuccessful launch in June 1996 and suffered a partial failure on its second launch in October 1997 before an unqualified success on its third launch in October 1998.
ArianeGroup conducted a full ignition test of an early Prometheus prototype on 22 June 2023 at its test facility in Vernon, France with a 12-second burn.
ArianeGroup is developing the Prometheus engine under contract to the European Space Agency (ESA).
Prometheus uses extensive new materials and manufacturing techniques to reduce its cost to about one tenth of Ariane 5’s Vulcain 2 engine.
The Ariane 6 mobile gantry was retracted on 2023-06-22, unveiling the launch vehicle on the launch pad.
The Ariane 64 version with four boosters can carry more than 12,000 kg into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) with a dual launch.
Beyond Gravity won an order to produce the payload fairings for ArianeGroup’s Ariane 6 rocket.