Ariane 6 | Mobile gantry removal test timelapse

On 22 June 2023 at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, engineers rolled back the mobile gantry protecting Ariane 6 on its launch pad. The exercise helped validate ground systems and prepare for a series of engine fire tests.

Credits: ESA ; S. Corvaja, ESA/M. Pédoussaut, Zetapress

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[MattLowne]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this, go Space Team Europe!

[JackMack]

Very cool. Thanks ESA. Good luck with the engine fire tests!

[Corrina_Stanley]

Thanks for the update, good luck with the test fire.

[dark_elf_wizard]

wow that looks nice, interesting idea to move the building instead of the spaceship.

[micmaclecatalan]

C'est incroyable de voir ce monstre d'acier se déplacer avec autant de facilité
Bravo aux concepteurs
Go AR6 !..
😉👍🏻

[MotoREEngr]

One of the most beautiful and sleekest rockets today!

[Synthanarchist]

It's beautiful, I've looked at this for five hours now

[carmamd]

Very impressive, and also beautiful.💕🙏

[Slicudis]

That's cool! Good job ESA!
Which probe will you launch with the rocket?

[sebpatu]

The biggest mobile structure ever built!

[TerraSpaceIndustries]

Congratulations on the test!!! Is this the full scale mockup still? Or a fully working flight capable rocket?, that ML platform is really smart looking too, with its umbilicals and mobile housing for the rocket😀

[dark_elf_wizard]

that looks cool. how many humans were needed to move that building?

[jonny]

Pretty impressive. Unfortunately Ariane 6 is already outdated before it has even flown once because it's not reusable. Meanwhile SpaceX has landed over 200 Falcon 9 first stage boosters successfully while ESA/Arianespace is still developing an expendable rocket of the past.

And don't tell me ESA does something reusable too with the Themis Project. This has been shifted to after the 2030s and will just try to copy Falcon 9. But in very few years Starship will be flying very often and it will be fully reusable. ESA/Arianespace are just fully asleep atm and ignoring the developments of SpaceX completely.

I really wish ESA and Arianespace would wake up and quickly develop something similar to the Starship. Can be smaller and less ambitious with the engines and catching. But we Europeans have quickly go towards the development of fully reusable rockets if we don't want to be left behind.

[lezoer]

So many means for, a price out of profitability, !!
when is a shuttle of humans like Hermès/VX?

Nothing new apart from complications between countries, to develop this, too much concession to the administrative and barnum of praise and glitter !!