Ariane user manual

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Privacy Overview This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Strictly Necessary Cookies Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. Industries across Europe are in charge of building the launch vehicle and its components, with ArianeGroup as prime contractor and design authority. While ESA provides the launch system requirements for institutional missions, industry is responsible for identifying commercial market requirements, given its future responsibility in the commercial use of the launch system.

You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! The first Ariane 6 flight is planned for the second quarter of Flexibility 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. Rideshare opportunities for small satellites Payload carriers allow small satellites lighter than kg to ride 'piggyback' on the launch of the main payload, efficiently combining payloads in the same mission.

Ariane 6 elements Artist's view of the two configurations of Ariane 6 Ariane 6 comprises three stages: two or four strap-on boosters, a core stage and an upper stage.

Launch Vehicle Assembly Building The Launch Vehicle Assembly Building — a structure 20 m tall, m long, and 41 m wide, located 1 km away from the launch zone. It is used for horizontal integration and preparation before rollout to the launch zone.

Mobile gantry under construction The mobile gantry — a 90 metre-high mobile metallic structure weighing tonnes when fully equipped, that rolls on rails. The mobile gantry is equipped with platforms to give access to the launch vehicle for integration on the launch pad. It stores and protects Ariane 6 until it is retracted before launch. Launch pad The launch pad is It comprises a tonne steel launch table that supports Ariane 6.

Steel deflectors funnel the fiery plumes of Ariane 6 at liftoff into the exhaust tunnels buried deep under the launch table. Four lightning protection masts, and a water tower for deluge systems are also part of the launch pad.

Further information Further information on the progress of the Ariane 6 programme can be found on the Ariane 6 and ESA Space Transportation Twitter accounts, on the Ariane 6 Instagram account, and on the Spaceport blog. Like Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!