How Europe’s biggest rocket came to be: Ariane 6 montage

The first half of 2024 saw hundreds of people across Europe building, cajoling, shipping, lowering, integrating, securing and protecting the precious pieces and parts that came together to create Ariane 6 – Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket.

Huge engines, boosters and outer shells met tiny screws, electrical boards and masses of supercooled fuel. All this came together at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, for the spectacular first launch of Ariane 6 on 9 July 2024, restoring Europe’s access to space.

Get a glimpse at the teamwork, skill and care that went into this moment over many months, in this montage of Ariane 6 images, videos and timelapse photography spanning 30 January to 9 July 2024.

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[thomasseamenacetoysgamesan]

Very cool to see the process behind the construction of it, I can’t wait to see the future of the Ariane 6 and what it’ll carry.

[VonRadkefulght]

Une véritable merveille d'ingénierie. L’Agence spatiale européenne mérite des félicitations sans réserve pour avoir assemblé une fusée aussi incroyablement complexe et compliquée.

[joependleton]

That was supersonic, The spacey music was fun, and to see your rocket made. Great video!

[DeltaMike]

Breathtaking montage! Thanks for sharing.

[ptonpc]

Here's to many, many more successful launches. and missions.

[blackoutalmaty]

ESA вы можете составить конкуренцию ведущим космическим агентствам мира, не останавливайтесь

[atanastoshev]

I know that American rocket like Falcon 9 from Space X can be better, but that doesn't mean, that we have to stop. No, we have to work more and do better job. Exactly like Chine does. Bravo ESA. ❤

[philippostiglione]

Fantastic heavy lift system. Maybe the next generation will be reusable?

[MustafaKemal-oeie]

This was the first and also the last flight of a rocket that isnt new by any means.The Ariane 6 shares the same fate as the CST-100 Starliner and SLS.

[maximus]

My dream is to join ESA but i dont know if my smart enough.

[MinerBat]

cool! will the outro of the channel now be changed to ariane 6 launch footage instead of ariane 5?

[mishkosimonovski]

Bro this is just for satelites and ISS. For Moon mission you need Starship/Super Heavy type reusability.

[s.m.]

CERES FACULAE:

I think I know what causes the light. Cherenkov radiation. Ceres hasn’t got an atmosphere and magnetosphere. So fast-neutrons travel through the ice/water beyond the speed of light in water. That causes these blue flashes of light.

[Ahmdoso]

"JUST A DREAM", 10 years late and even more so if they don't reuse the rockets, 10 years of arrogance.

[BERSERCŒUR]

When will Germany face consequences for breach of contract, conflict of interest, stopping IRIS² and prioritizing an American company for EUMETSAT?

[AlterraLaboratories]

Stop encrypting your geo weather satellites

[OzzMazz]

You know what? I would have preferred some commentary and NO music (Noise as I hear it).
I guess I just could have muted the audio, but I was expecting some voice over.

[elrabiator]

Wir brauchen hier 100Mio Abonnenten, dann fliegen WIR auch mit Gewinn ins All. PS: aus dem ganzen Panzkampferschrott inne Ukraine kann man doch einen Fahrstuhl zur ISS bauen ODER!?!

[AGENTist]

You cannot launch anything without begging SpaceX, Ariane 6 costs over 70 million per launch and over 4 billion to develop, whereas Falcon 9 can launch and bring down the cost in half due to rapid reuseablity. Waste of taxpayer money

[gmazelli]

This is truly impressive, but:
- Falcon is more cost-effective And very reliable too
- in a couple of years the cheapest way to launch this will be...to pack it inside Starship
- I follow several Space Tech channels: with commentary it is way more enjoyable (for us Space nerds 🧐)
- hope this works flawlessly from the start so you can move to develop true next gen tech