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L’ultime vol de la fusée Ariane 5 va boucler une carrière quasi parfaite
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 8 June, 2023 - 16:24
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The Ariane 6 rocket will now debut no earlier than the spring of 2024
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 12 May, 2023 - 14:53
Enlarge / Under the stars with the Ariane 6 launch base at Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. (credit: ESA )
The European Space Agency posted an update Friday on the status of its flagship rocket, the Ariane 6 vehicle. While the space agency did not provide a concrete launch target for the rocket's debut flight, it shared information on key milestones to be completed, including a test firing of the rocket's first stage in French Guiana.
Even without an updated launch date, it can reasonably be inferred from the new information that the Ariane 6 rocket will not launch this year. The question now is how far the debut of the much-anticipated rocket will slip into 2024.
Here's why: During a news conference in October 2022, the director general of the European Space Agency, Josef Aschbacher, laid out the pathway for the Ariane 6 rocket to make its debut in 2023. "There are three very big milestones ahead of us that need to be accomplished by the first quarter of 2023 in order for the inaugural flight by the end of next year," he said at the time.
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L’envol de JUICE a été si parfait que sa mission pourra durer plus longtemps
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 18 April, 2023 - 15:30
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JUICE n’est pas le dernier vol de la fusée Ariane 5
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 April, 2023 - 12:43
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La mission JUICE de l’ESA a décollé vers les lunes glacées de Jupiter
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 April, 2023 - 12:24
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La foudre empêche JUICE de partir vers Jupiter
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 13 April, 2023 - 12:24
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L’année 2023 est pénible pour les fusées européennes
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 6 March, 2023 - 15:43
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On sait pourquoi la fusée européenne Vega C a échoué en plein vol
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 3 March, 2023 - 09:29
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European launch chief insists there be no competition with Ariane rockets
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 24 January, 2023 - 15:47
Enlarge / A pathfinder version of the Ariane 6 rocket is seen at launch facilities in Kourou, French Guiana. (credit: European Space Agency)
The development of a commercial launch industry in Europe lags behind the United States by about 10 or 15 years, but there are now about a dozen startups in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, and France building small rockets sometimes referred to as "microlaunchers."
The European Space Agency and several of these nations have provided a modicum of support to these companies, often in the form of launch contracts worth a few million dollars. But so far, European space institutions have stopped short of assisting these commercial companies more substantially, as NASA did with the commercial cargo and crew programs for the International Space Station.
One reason for this is the entrenched launch monopoly in Europe, Arianespace. Owned by various aerospace suppliers across Europe, the Paris-based launch company markets and operates a small launcher in the form of the Vega C rocket and heavy-lift rockets in the form of the soon-to-be retired Ariane 5 and forthcoming Ariane 6 rocket.
