Ariane 6

At the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the new launch facilities for ESA’s Ariane 6 launcher are being built. With the Ariane 6 launcher and the upgrade of the Vega to Vega C, Europe expands its launching capacities by creating versatile launchers that meet market demands. At the same time ESA supports both institutional missions and European industry as both Ariane 6 and Vega C will be fully European. With Ariane 6 and Vega C, Europe secures its independent access to space for years to come.

[derimik]

Can't wait for our next European Heavy Launcher 😊🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

[ErnestJay]

NASA = the move the rocket from VAB towards the Launch Pad
ESA = they move the VAB away from the Rocket.

[redballthing]

Can't wait for Ariane 6! The Ariane 5 was an amazing launch vehicle, good luck on Ariane 6!

[longyu]

ESA must secure independant launch capability for manned vehicles. It's incredible that by now ESA has never launched an astronaut on her own vehicles.

[kazz]

Good luck, humanity is counting on you!

[christophehatch-berthier]

Great to see Ariannespace with a new launcher. However, as a european tax payer, I am dissapointed that we do not have a man rated space vehicle considering that we have the technology proven with the ATV. When are we going to send european men and women by our own means? I am getting bored of us having to wait for our turn with the Americans and the Russians. I want France and all of Europe to have manned spacecraft of our own so we may explore space to our guise. We deserve it to ourselves to have sovereingty is space.

[Olive_Chap]

From the point of view of ISRO Vega c is equivalent to PSLV ( which is our gem in this segment ) & Ariane 6 is like double GSLV MK3.. anyways good wishes from India

[ArcoHollestelle]

so when Ariane 6 and Vega C come online no Soyuz launches from Kourou anymore??

[MrLukasboys]

Let´s all throw around the two phrases we know and a company name without really knowing the possible reasoning between two different approaches: Reusable Rockets (as if they are these mystic things) and Space X.

[micoforion]

I thing about Ariane, is it'll be very expensive to launch satellites for commercial customers, when they do design Ariane 7, which could happen as early as mid 2020s, it'll need to be 90% reusable to compete with likes of SpaceX and BlueOrigin.

[edgeeffect]

Great to see Ariannespace moving forwards... no suprpise to see the usual ill-informed, opinionated bullshit in the comments section.

[musicmaker]

Don't forget to run the new flight envelope through the flight software this time!

[markrobinson]

satellite engineering is my dream job.

[officer_baitlyn]

i dont know how cheap they can make it but the statements about their competetiveness seem overblown when u put them next to a reuseable rocket since alot of the cost are those first stage engines
which in their case are heavily supported by solid fuel boosters which are inherently single use only
still a

[eigentlichtoll]

wtf ? 2:42 "hopefully reliable" !? but (still) a good product (ur kidding me right)
Or does he say "viable"? I'm confused.

[Mandanara]

Ariane 6 is too little too late. How is project Adeline going? Still just vaporware? We in Europe need reusability not a slightly cheaper version of Ariane 5.

[RealMartian]

this do not stand in front of spacex BFR in 2020

[jaxonmattox]

Europe needs independent crew access to space. Hell even if they don't make their own crew vehicle order a few crew dream chasers or something.

[tiapc]

I wonder how much government will have to subsidize the cost for commercial launches? Why does both ULA and ESA use disposable SRB's.

[amateurastronaut]

Take a Shot every time they say “European”!