The 184-foot-tall (56-meter) rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:24 am EST (16:24 UTC). Twin solid-fueled boosters and a hydrogen-fueled core stage engine powered the Ariane 6 through ...

To ensure that all payloads can be safely launched into orbit, the engines of the new Ariane 6 launch vehicle must first undergo extensive testing. An important step in the testing of the upper stage ...

Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has successfully completed its first commercial launch carrying a French military satellite ...

One of the requirements stipulated by the Council is that Ariane 6 must be as similar as possible to Ariane 5ME in terms of the reignitable cryogenic upper stage. The national objective is to further ...

While SpaceX managed to get its hulk of a Starship rocket off the ground on Thursday, the upper-stage spacecraft ... the rocket’s flight. The two-stage Ariane 6 first flew in July 2024.

The first commercially operational launch of Europe's Ariane 6 heavy rocket was postponed for a second time on Monday, operator Arianespace said.

At the time of that launch, Arianespace had planned to conduct the second Ariane 6 before the end of the year after diagnosing the issue that prevented the upper stage from deorbiting. In November ...

The upper stage can be ignited repeatedly in space to deploy satellites at different positions. Ariane 6 was launched for the first time last summer, four years later than originally planned.

and Starship’s upper stage will attempt to deploy four dummy Starlink satellites on a suborbital trajectory. For Ariane 6 it is a vital launch, and the launch company says the ground problems which ...

Europe's newest uncrewed heavy launcher blasted off on a delayed mission to carry a French military observation satellite towards orbit on Thursday in its first commercially operational launch. The ...

The Ariane 6 can carry larger satellites, launching payloads of up to 21.6 metric tons into lower orbits and 11.5 tons into ...

Ariane 6 had staged a partially successful inaugural test flight on July 9 last year, carrying out a series of trials but leaving its upper stage in orbit after a software glitch. Thursday's ...