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ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency began a campaign of hot-fire tests of the Ariane 6 upper stage and its Vinci engine at Lampoldshausen, Germany on 2022-10-05 and announced the campaign on 2022-10-06.
The 2022-10-05 test firing was the first of up to four planned hot-fire tests to qualify the Ariane 6 upper stage for flight.
MTG-I1 is scheduled to be launched on an Ariane 5 with liftoff planned in December.
The electronics at the heart of the Ariane 6 range safeguard system are wholly designed and built by Thales Alenia Space in Belgium.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with ArianeGroup to develop a range safeguard system for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.
The contract for the Ariane 6 range safeguard system provides for a ramp-up until the 15th launcher and for the delivery of 112 components and sub-assemblies from now to the summer of 2024.
Ariane 6 is a European Space Agency program designed to maintain Europe’s leading position in a fast-evolving commercial market while meeting the needs of European government missions.
The electronics at the heart of the Ariane 6 range safeguard system are wholly designed and built by Thales Alenia Space in Belgium.
Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with ArianeGroup to produce the range safeguard system for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.
After the 2022-09-07 launch of Eutelsat’s Konnect VHTS, three Ariane 5 launches remain, two carrying communications satellites and one carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission for the European Space Agency.
The European Space Agency and other Ariane 6 partners will provide an update later 2022-09 on the status of Ariane 6 development.
Ariane 5 launched the James Webb Space Telescope in December 2021.
Ariane 6 will take the role as Europe’s heavy-lift launcher after the retirement of Ariane 5.
Ariane 5 lifted off from the European Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana, at 5:45 p.m. Eastern on 2022-09-07.
ArianeGroup qualified the launcher’s fully integrated avionics network at its development center in Les Mureaux near Paris, France in March 2022.
Arianespace had planned to fly Ovzon 3 earlier in 2022 on an Ariane 5 rocket alongside Eutelsat’s Konnect VHTS satellite.
Eutelsat Quantum was launched on 2021-07-30 by an Ariane 5 from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana.
Arianespace launched Eutelsat Quantum and the StarOne D2 payload on an Ariane 5 on 2021-07-30.
Arianespace launched Measat-3d on 2022-06-22 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to operate at 91.5 degrees East.
EnVision will launch on an Ariane 62 and therefore cannot carry the extra propellant required to lower its orbit without aerobraking.