Ariane 6
Ariane 6 is becoming a reality. Designed to be the workhorse for the coming decades to secure Europe’s independent access to space and its leadership on the launcher services market, the new launcher is going ahead. Developments contracts are signed, engine firing tests are on-going and new facilities are built.
For example at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana the new launch zone is now visible and earthworks are even ahead of schedule.This video shows for the first time aerial views of the Ariane 6 future launch area in Kourou, it includes animations of both versions : Ariane 62 and Ariane 64 with also an interview with Gaele Winters, recent former ESA Director of Launchers.
More about Ariane 6:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/Launch_vehicles/Ariane_6
Why don't ESA use SpaceX rockets or Blue Origin. Wasting rockets we need them to return. Damaging our planet ESA!
Why are they building an entirely new launch facility for this? Could they not modify ELA-3 To support both Ariane 5 and 6 or Re-purpose the defunct ELA-2?
The future is reusability. ESA needs to adapt!
Sorry, got to get this off my chest: "Ar-rian" or "A-ree-an"? I have never heard an English-speaking person to refer to this rocket using anything other than "A-ree-an". Is everyone wrong, or is the narrator being ostentatious?
Any idea how would it cost per launch? The thing that makes it really going cheaper was the SYLDA dual payload system, an interesting use to lower the price.
How will it be cheaper if it is using the same technology?
All of you SpaceX trolls: your comments are irrelevant!
This is about ESA and independent access to space for Europe and not at all about putting a commercial product to market and obsessing with total cost of operation.
ESA is not competting with anyone on the free market and does not need to generate a net profit for a bunch of shareholders either nor does it ever need to impress anyone outside Europe with private sector value for money services.
ESA is supposed to be the gateway for strategic access to space for Europe as a whole.
What matters is who does it and who controls it, just like with nuclear weapons – that is the matter of strategic importance – who exactly gets to press the button that makes it go boom and not how much boom you get per dollar spent!
It matters very little if our space program is more expensive than your now private sector based attempts because we can afford it and as long as it will provide jobs here and provide training and growth here we will always be able to afford it just like we have our own deffence budgets and all sorts of different and sometimes unique national expenditures in the member states.
Why don't you try to convince Israel to just go and buy some nuclear warheads at wallmart instead, I heard they got buy one get one free deal going on at the moment…
"America, fuck yeah!"
Sadly there is no progress in developing new rocket propulsion technology. This stuff shown is outdated tech from the 60-70. There is nothing more outdated today than this rockets. The last big innovation was the ion thruster from 1964. So what is the problem? Why is there no new progress? We have not even build a base on the moon and there is not even a fix date for a Mars mission.
It would be wise to delay Ariane 6 launcher and look at what BlueOrigin and SpacexX are doing. Ariane 6 can't compete against SpaceX Falcon 9, Falcon 9 Heavy or BlueOrigin's the "Very Big Brother Rocket", Even New Shepard albeit small launcher is already eating at ESA's market share.
ESA must be more innovative, must design 1st stage re-usable boosters at least, 2nd stage should be re-usable as well, otherwise ESA might as well throw money in to the wind.
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look, Arianespace Is a commercial launch service provider. which means that the ariane 6 is Highly focused for commercial launches. as well the impressive double launches.