Developed and built by arianegroup for the european space agency (esa), it symbolises successful european space cooperation. Search the 27 scheduled launches, with filters to easily find specific ariane 6 missions Ariane is a series of european civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use
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The name comes from the french spelling of the mythological character ariadne.
The success of ariane 6 is key for our european capability to access space
An ariane 6 successfully launched a radar imaging satellite nov 4 after european agencies chose to use a larger rocket to ensure an earlier launch. Ariane 6 will have the flexibility to launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation. Ariane 6 is a european expendable launch system developed for the european space agency (esa) and french space agency (cnes) and manufactured by a consortium of european companies, led by the prime contractor arianegroup
As part of the ariane rocket family, it is operated by arianespace, replacing the ariane 5 The project's primary contributors were france (55.3%), germany (21%) and italy (7.