The name comes from the french spelling of the mythological character ariadne. Ariane 6 is a powerful, versatile, scalable launcher, designed to carry out an unrivalled range of missions in the institutional and commercial launch market Developed and built by arianegroup for the european space agency (esa), it symbolises successful european space cooperation. The success of ariane 6 is key for our european capability to access space The ariane 6 rocket lifted off from the kourou launch site in french guiana at 3:01 p.m Eastern (1901 utc) july 9
Launch followed a short delay due to a data acquisition system issue. Find out all about ariane 6, the new launcher developed and built by arianegroup, which combines high performance and competitiveness for all types of space missions to all orbits. Arianespace designs and deploys space transportation services for all types of satellites, to the capacity to transport any mass, at any time With more than 45 years of experience, arianespace has launched more than 1,100 satellites, for over 150 institutional and commercial customers worldwide. Ariane, family of launch vehicles developed as a means of independent access to space for the european space agency (esa) and as a launcher for commercial payloads. Arianegroup (formerly airbus safran launchers) is an aerospace company based in france