Europe’s next big rocket in a nutshell

Ariane 6 is the newest rocket in a series that has, for five decades, been launching Europe towards the stars. Building on all the knowledge, expertise and technology developed over the years, Ariane 6 will be versatile, modular, and European.

Guaranteeing Europe’s access to space for the next years, Ariane 6 in two versions, with either two or four boosters attached depending on the ‘oomph’ the mission requires. Versatile, its upper stage can reignite multiple times during a single flight, placing any spacecraft into any orbit – including constellations – saving a final boost to return and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. Modular, it will be continuously adapted to the needs of the future space sector.

Four organisations take care of the Ariane 6 programme: ESA at the head, ArianeGroup as the main contractor, CNES who designed and built the launchpad and ArianeSpace who sell the launches.

13 countries contribute, thousands of Europeans have worked on it, and every one of us will benefit from the Earth observation, science, technologies and services it will make possible.

Credits: ESA - European Space Agency

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[SR-SEEN]

Great visualisation. Good initiative of taking the space exploration to a normal person in the world. 👍 ESA

[sananselmospacescienceodys]

1:10 "It can fire at will." Why do Europeans hate Will?

[ptonpc]

Here's to many many safe and successful flights

[XMarkxyz]

4:20 Earth rotating in the opposite direction

[heyedddie]

For everyone saying Europe should build a reusable rocket. They are working on that. It's the Themis programme.
Yes it's a bit late but keep in mind that Ariane 6 was conceived around 2010.
Years before SpaceX demonstrated the feasibility of reusable rockets.

[Rafal_Czyzewski]

Thank you for not including Poland as a contributor to Ariane 6. Not like the hull of that Canopée ship wasn't built in Szczecin, Poland 😐

[yamuis]

Thank you! But why is earth rotating in the wrong direction?

[jakajakos]

Its time we in Europe invest in reusable rockets as well. This is a cool rocket, but it is already obsolete

[nonick]

3:49 Ariane 6 is also italian. As you said, Boosters are from Vega-c and built in Italy

[kevinh]

Ariane 6 is amazing!! Thank you for the information. GO ESA! 💙🚀

[NOLNV]

A very good and comprehensive overview!

[Unbaguettable]

As much as reusability is important, it is true that it only matters if they're launching a lot. Falcon 9 is launching at such an insane rate they need reusability (100+ launches a year). Ariane 6 won't ever be launching at anything even close to that, probably less than 10 a year if even that. Reusability doesn't make sense to them.

[MrFranklitalien]

the smart upper stage will be an interesting development of this system

[falco]

Yesterday's stream managed to keep me excited for hours! Go ESA!❤❤

[voidvoidvoid]

Technology is amazing ! Keep up the good work, ESA !

[valbytaxa]

When is the upgraded solid booster gonna be ready? They are called P160C right ❤

[MsUbersoldat]

If it can't land and be reused, it's too expensive. Try again ESA

[trsu]

There's no point beating anyone up about "reusable" unless they've got a business plan that needs frequent+regular 'space-trucking'. Starlink's service vehicles - because that's what they are - are paid for by Starlink, they're an unavoidable ongoing cost to be controlled; that's why they're so cheap when they're used for other people's launches. Nobody else's rockets are being matched to fully-predictable forever budgets. Paying the extra to build reusability in for something that might never be used (that's how unpredictable non-routine spaceflight is) can't make it past accountants.
You're not going to be able to match SpaceX without a make-money proposition to pay for your own space trucks.
Juggling nuclear waste for 10, 000+ years at national-security level is presumably not cheap? Ask the nuclear industry to truck their waste away - preferably before Musk offers to do it.

[Cray-wilder]

Very good video¡ but why no mention the capacity launch thrust engine's and ¿

[leprichaun]

WOW! Such a good presentation!! Such a good rocket!!!