The catastrophic failure occurred just two months after the spacecraft ... Standing at 164-feet (50 meters), the new rocket replaced the Ariane 5, which made its final flight in July 2023 following ...

As Ariane 5 had ... follows the failure in mid-January. Back then, the upper stage exploded a few minutes after take-off. Since then, several changes have been made to the giant rocket.

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 ...