Ariane 6

The ELA-4 launch facility at the Guiana Space Centre supports Ariane 6 flights.

Toni Tolker-Nielsen, interim director of ESA's Space Transportation Systems, announced that a set of enhancements known as Block 2 will be introduced to the Ariane 6 in 2026.

Arianespace will launch a pair of Galileo satellites into orbit on 17 December 2025 at 02:01 local time (05:01 UTC) using Ariane 6.

Arianespace will launch Galileo L14, a pair of satellites, with the Ariane 6 rocket from the European Spaceport in French Guiana on December 17 at 6:01 AM Spanish peninsular time.

The Argonaut mission is expected to launch by the end of 2030 on an Ariane 6 rocket.

SAT 33 and SAT 34 will be launched on December 17, 2025, aboard an Ariane 6 rocket, specifically the A62 configuration.

This launch marks the first time Galileo satellites are deployed using Ariane 6, Europe's heavy-lift rocket.

The Ariane 6 flight will launch from French Guiana and expand the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) constellation, which currently consists of 27 active satellites.

Italy is supporting the full exploitation of Ariane 6 and Vega C with contributions of €27.06 million and €56.74 million, respectively.

Arianespace has shipped key parts of an Ariane 6 rocket to French Guiana ahead of its first Amazon mission, targeted for early 2026.

Galileo satellites SAT 33 and SAT 34 are ready for integration on Ariane 6.

The payload fairing of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle, which is a carbon fiber composite structure with a 5.4-meter diameter, was manufactured at Beyond Gravity’s facility in Emmen, Switzerland.

Arianespace announced the completion of the encapsulation of Galileo SAT 33 and SAT 34, which are now protected under the fairing of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.

Ariane 6 will conduct its first launch of Galileo satellites from the Guiana Space Centre on the night of 16-17 December.

The European Space Agency awarded ArianeGroup a €90 million contract in July 2021 for the development of an ASTRIS kick stage as part of the Ariane 6 Competitiveness Improvement Programme.

Before Ariane 6's first commercial flight in March 2023, ESA contracted SpaceX to launch two Galileo satellites in September 2024.

Ariane 6 completed four successful flights in 2025, carrying payloads for CNES, EUMETSAT, and the European Space Agency.

The Galileo satellites were launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket at 06:01 CET.

ArianeGroup entered 2025 having completed just a single flight of its Ariane 6 rocket following an anomaly during its inaugural flight.

The proposed evolution of Ariane 6 would use reusable boosters derived from a rocket being developed by MaiaSpace, a subsidiary of ArianeGroup.