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• ESA Approves “European Launcher” Definition Ahead of Ariane 6 Debut European Spaceflight · 9 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency’s member states have adopted a resolution that outlines what it considers to be a “European launch service.” Over the last two weeks, Arianespace head of public affairs Charlotte Lang, CNES chai...
• Ariane 6 Ready for Debut Flight Space Scout · 8 Jul 2024 Ariane 6, the European Space Agency and Arianespace’s next-generation rocket, is ready to perform its maiden flight on July 9, 2024.
• Could Avio’s Finalized Split from Arianespace Offer an Opening for Competitors? European Spaceflight · 8 Jul 2024 European Space Agency member states have agreed on the details of how customers already booked to be launched aboard Vega C flights will be managed after Avio splits from Arianespace. On 6 November 2023, during the ESA C...
• Arianespace Advocates Enforcing European Launcher Preference European Spaceflight · 26 Jun 2024 Arianespace head of public affairs Charlotte Lang has advocated for legislation that would require European missions to be launched aboard European rockets. Lang made the comments during the “Ensuring Long Term Autonomou...
• ESA Signs Off on Argonaut Lunar Lander Engine Test European Spaceflight · 25 Jun 2024 An ESA-led Test Review Board has signed off on a hot fire test campaign of an engine being developed by ArianeGroup for the European Argonaut lunar lander. First called the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3), Argonaut...
• Ariane 6 joint update report, 21 June 2024 ESA · 21 Jun 2024 The Ariane 6 Launcher Task Force consists of top management of ESA, as the overall Ariane 6 procuring entity and launch system architect, of the French space agency CNES as the launch base prime contractor, of ArianeGrou...
• ESA Asked to Mediate Avio’s Split from Arianespace European Spaceflight · 20 Jun 2024 The European Space Agency has been asked to mediate the ongoing negotiations to transfer the operational responsibility of Vega C from Arianespace to its manufacturer, Avio. In November 2023, at the Space Summit in Sevil...
• Avio Ships First Upgraded Ariane 6 Booster European Spaceflight · 19 Jun 2024 Italian rocket builder Avio has announced that it has shipped the first P160C solid fuel booster to French Guiana. The booster will be used aboard the ArianeGroup Ariane 6 Block 2 rocket and Avio’s next-generation Vega E...
• Space Team Europe for Ariane 6: Martin Bourdel ESA · 24 May 2024 They say it takes a village to raise a child. To launch a rocket, we have the combined expertise and passion of Space Team Europe. Martin Bourdel, Cost Engineer at ArianeGroup,l is one of many making the first Ariane 6 l...
• A new era: Ariane 6 maiden launch campaign gets underway NASASpaceflight · 27 Apr 2024 On July 5, 2023, the Ariane 5 launch vehicle took flight for the last time, thus ending a storied 27-year career for what was Europe’s first heavy-lift rocket. Nearly ten months later, Arianespace is back at the launchpa...
• ArianeGroup prepares to ship Ariane 6 maiden flight rocket to Kourou NASASpaceflight · 7 Feb 2024 The combined Ariane 6 launcher task force, consisting of ESA, CNES, and ArianeGroup, has reported on the progress of Ariane 6, the steps to launch, and the beginning of stage shipments to the launch site.
• ESA to Begin Dismantling Ariane 6 Test Article European Spaceflight · 1 Feb 2024 With the completion of fuel line and umbilical disconnection testing, the European Space Agency and its project partners have successfully completed all major Ariane 6 ground tests, paving the way for a mid-year debut. O...
• ArianeGroup Prepare to Ship Ariane 6 Flight Hardware to Kourou European Spaceflight · 20 Jan 2024 ArianeGroup is preparing to ship the Ariane 6 core stage and upper stage that will be used for the vehicle’s first flight towards the middle of this year to the launch site in French Guiana. Although the development of A...
• ArianeGroup to Increase MaiaSpace Investment to €125M European Spaceflight · 10 Jan 2024 ArianeGroup has committed to increasing its investment in the company’s launch startup subsidiary, MaiaSpace, from approximately €40 million to €125 million. MaiaSpace was founded in late 2021 with the aim of developing...
• Sirius Space Completes 60-Second STAR-1 V2 Hot Fire Test European Spaceflight · 30 Dec 2023 French launch startup Sirius Space Services has completed a successful hot fire test of the newest version of its STAR-1 rocket engine. Sirius Space began testing its 55kN STAR-1 engine at ArianeGroup’s facilities in Ver...
• ESA Successfully Completes Ariane 6 Launch Sequence Rehearsal European Spaceflight · 20 Dec 2023 Teams from the European Space Agency, ArianeGroup, and the French space agency CNES have completed an Ariane 6 launch sequence rehearsal. The test was conducted on 15 December and included a full launch sequence rehearsa...
• MaiaSpace Completes First Kick Stage Engine Test European Spaceflight · 15 Dec 2023 ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace has announced the completion of the first hot fire test of the engine that will power the company’s Colibri kick stage. The kick stage will be encased in a three-meter-tall fairing and wi...
• Amazon seeks dismissal of Project Kuiper launch contract lawsuit SpaceNews · 14 Dec 2023 Amazon is seeking to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit filed in August that alleged that the company’s board of directors acted in bad faith when it awarded Project Kuiper launch contracts to Arianespace, Blue Origin and Uni...
• ArianeGroup CEO Finally Says Quiet Part Out Loud European Spaceflight · 8 Dec 2023 ArianeGroup CEO Martin Sion has suggested that the company may not have “understood the reality of the situation” when it promised to debut Ariane 6 by 2020. Sion made the comments during an interview with French news ou...
• ArianeGroup begins testing prototype of multirole Susie upper stage SpaceNews · 21 Nov 2023 ArianeGroup has begun testing what it considers to be a versatile answer to numerous challenges facing European spaceflight.
• Avio and Arianespace Finalize Divorce Terms European Spaceflight · 8 Nov 2023 During the 2023 Space Summit in Seville, European Space Agency member states agreed to allow Avio to market and manage the launch of Vega C independent of Arianespace. The Vega family of rockets are developed and manufac...
• ArianeGroup to Receive €340M Per Year to Operate Ariane 6 European Spaceflight · 7 Nov 2023 Member states of the European Space Agency have committed to provide ArianeGroup with up to €340 million a year to operate Ariane 6. In addition to subsidies for Ariane 6, it was also agreed that €21 million per year wou...
• CNES Boss on Damage Control for ArianeGroup on Ariane 6 Failures European Spaceflight · 6 Nov 2023 The head of the French space agency CNES, Philippe Baptiste, identified a complex governance structure and ESA’s geographic return rule as the primary reasons why the development of Ariane 6 has failed to meet projected...
• Prometheus Completes 30-Second Hot Fire Test European Spaceflight · 30 Oct 2023 ArianeGroup announced last week that it had completed a test campaign of a Prometheus engine prototype that included a 30-second hot fire test. Prometheus began as a CNES project in 2015, with the agency projecting that...
• Avio Just Needs Some Space from Arianespace European Spaceflight · 26 Oct 2023 Italian rocket builders Avio have asked the European Space Agency to allow it to split from Arianespace and independently market its Vega launch vehicles. The request was first reported by La Tribune. The request, which...
• ESA to Begin Testing Ariane 6 Upgrade European Spaceflight · 25 Oct 2023 The European Space Agency has announced that it will begin testing a carbon fibre-reinforced plastic liquid oxygen tank that will be used aboard the Ariane 6 Icarus upper stage. In May 2019, ESA signed an agreement with...
• Two Vega VV23 Payloads Failed to Deploy European Spaceflight · 16 Oct 2023 A pair of payloads that were among 12 carried to orbit aboard the Arianespace-managed Vega VV23 flight failed to be deployed and likely burned up in the atmosphere still attached to the rocket’s upper stage. The Vega VV2...
• Arianespace Launch Europe’s Final Mission of 2023 Aboard Vega European Spaceflight · 9 Oct 2023 Arianespace launched a Vega rocket in the early hours of 9 October, carrying two primary payloads and ten small secondary payloads. The VV23 flight was Europe’s third and final mission of 2023. The Avio-built Vega rocket...
• ArianeGroup Invests €27M More into MaiaSpace European Spaceflight · 21 Sep 2023 As per public filings, ArianeGroup completed a €27 million investment into MaiaSpace on 27 June 2023. Filings indicate that MaiaSpace issued an additional 6.75 million shares as part of the agreement. Having been founded...
• NB-IoT provider OQ Technology moves to next Arianespace Vega mission SpaceNews · 19 Sep 2023 Launches for OQ Technology’s narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) constellation are set to resume Oct. 4 after Arianespace moved the Luxembourg venture to its next Vega mission, instead of an upgraded version of the ro...
• RIDE! Hopes to Make Booking a Spaceflight as Easy as a Plane Ticket European Spaceflight · 18 Sep 2023 French launch aggregator RIDE! announced last week that it had signed an agreement with Arianespace to market Ariane and Vega flights on its digital platform. RIDE! COO Maxime Gaud spoke to European Spaceflight to share...
• Arianespace to launch Intelsat small GEO satellite SpaceNews · 12 Sep 2023 Arianespace will launch a small geostationary communication satellite for Intelsat on an Ariane 6 in 2026, a sign of a stable, but diminished, role for such satellites in the commercial launch market.
• MaiaSpace Complete First Cryogenic Test of Second Stage Prototype European Spaceflight · 8 Sep 2023 MaiaSpace has completed the first cryogenic test of a full-scale prototype of the Maia rocket’s second stage. Maia is a partially reusable two-stage launch vehicle being developed by the ArianeGroup subsidiary. The vehic...
• Ariane 6 Core Stage Breathes Fire for the First Time European Spaceflight · 6 Sep 2023 ESA, the French Space Agency CNES, and project prime ArianeGroup completed the first shot hot fire test of an Ariane 6 core stage. The test was completed in the late afternoon on 5 September from the Ariane 6 ELA4 launch...
• Ariane 6 completes short-duration engine test SpaceNews · 6 Sep 2023 ESA and ArianeGroup announced a successful hot-fire test of the core stage of the Ariane 6 rocket, the first of two such tests before ESA is ready to set a date for the rocket’s inaugural launch.
• ESA Complete Full-Duration Hot Fire Test of Ariane 6 Second Stage European Spaceflight · 2 Sep 2023 The European Space Agency, the German Space Agency DLR, and project prime ArianeGroup successfully completed a full-duration hot fire test of an Ariane 6 second stage. Conducted on the P5.2 test stand at the DLR propulsi...
• Investing in Space: The nascent market for tracking and removing debris from orbit CNBC · 24 Aug 2023 It’s a sad irony, but an irony nonetheless, that this week the European Space Agency announced that a piece of space debris — left in orbit by a 2013 launch of Arianespace’s Vega rocket and the target of a removal missio...
• Arianespace to Launch Europe’s Final Mission of 2023 Aboard Vega in September European Spaceflight · 15 Aug 2023 After ESA confirmed Ariane 6 would not debut until 2024 and the return to flight of Vega C suffered a setback following a failed test, it appears that Europe can look forward to just one more launch in 2023. The Arianesp...
• MaiaSpace Reports Expenses of €3.49M in its First Year of Operation European Spaceflight · 24 Jul 2023 In public filings submitted on 9 June, MaiaSpace reported total expenses of €3.49 million for its first year of operation ending 31 December 2022. The ArianeGroup subsidiary was founded in early 2022 with the goal of dev...
• Launch Roundup – Arianespace launches Ariane 5 final flight; SpaceX flies one of last Starlink v1.5 flights NASASpaceflight · 3 Jul 2023 Three launches are currently planned for the week of July 2 through July 9. The first one took place on Wednesday, July 5, with a European rocket successfully making its 117th and final flight. Later in the week, SpaceX...