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The Ariane 6 upper stage Auxiliary Power Unit has been operated for a total of 137601 seconds over the course of more than 50 tests since the beginning of development.
The APU will be tested on the first complete Ariane 6 upper stage, the purpose-built Hot Firing Model (HFM).
Industry sources reported that fairing separation on the February 2020 and August 2020 Ariane 5 launches induced vibrations into the payload stack well above acceptable limits.
Ariane 5 last launched in August 2020, placing two communications satellites and Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 2 into geostationary transfer orbit.
The analysis will consider already awarded contracts to ArianeGroup, Avio, and Rocket Factory Augsburg, a subsidiary of OHB SE.
ESA's New European Space Transportation Solutions initiative prepares for the future beyond Ariane 6 and Vega-C.
MEV-2 was launched on 2020-08-15 from Kourou, French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.
EUMETSAT signed a joint statement in December 2020 on the institutional exploitation of Ariane 6 and Vega C favoring a European preference for launchers on institutional missions in Europe.
The maiden flight of Ariane 6 slipped to Q2/2022 after missing its originally planned 2020 launch window.
EUMETSAT confirmed Arianespace to launch the MTG-S1 sounder satellite and the MTG-I2 imager satellite using Ariane 6.
The European Space Agency asked its member nations for an additional €230 million ($268,000,000) in funding for Ariane 6 development.
ArianeGroup completed final assembly of the first Ariane 6 upper stage in October 2020 and completed hydraulic, electrical, and avionics functional testing at its Bremen site.
ArianeGroup employs 550 highly qualified employees at its Bremen site, of whom about 100 are producing components for Ariane 6 in a building equipped with industry 4.0 manufacturing process and integration technologies.
Ariane 6 is a program managed and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).
ArianeGroup CEO André-Hubert Roussel and CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall signed an agreement preparatory to testing the Prometheus rocket engine at the Vernon site in Normandy.
Arianespace currently expects to perform three Ariane 5 launches in 2021, two carrying commercial satellites and one carrying NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
The European Commission planned a bulk procurement of Ariane 6 and Vega C vehicles during the 2021–27 budget to fulfill Galileo and Copernicus missions.
Prometheus could be in use beginning in 2025 on a potential evolution of Ariane 6 and is also designed to equip a retro-firing landing stage.
France is providing an additional 102,000,000 EUR and Germany is providing an additional 54,000,000 EUR to cover Ariane 6 schedule risks.
ArianeGroup received a €33 million contract from the European Space Agency to begin the first development phase for the Themis reusable rocket stage demonstrator.