Posted on 07/09/2024 3:24:38 PM PDT by Morgana
Ariane 6 has suffered an Anomaly in orbit, and is currently stuck in orbit.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Never fear, Elon Musk is here.
“Can you hear me, Major Tom?”
Ariane 6 is a European expendable launch system operated by Arianespace and developed and produced by ArianeGroup on behalf of the European Space Agency. It replaces Ariane 5, as part of the Ariane launch vehicle family. This two-stage rocket utilizes liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engines.
Ariane 6 is a Eurotrash government jobs program building yesterday’s technology today.
Before Falcon and Falcon Heavy, Ariane 5 had the lowest cost to orbit.
They should have just hired American SpaceX to launch their satellites.
Second stage carrying satellite failure to burn? Mini thruster failure?
That also describes SLS, otherwise known as the Senate Launch System.
They can ask Russia to rescue them.
Also, this - Wracked by funding controversy and delays:
Ariane 6 was conceived in the early 2010s to be a replacement launch vehicle for Ariane 5, and a number of concepts and high-level designs were suggested and proposed during 2012–2015. Development funding from several European governments was initially secured by early 2016, and contracts were signed to begin detailed design and the build of test articles. While in 2019, the maiden orbital flight had been planned for 2020, by May 2020, the planned initial launch date had been delayed into 2021. In October 2020, ESA formally requested an additional €230 million in funding from the countries sponsoring the project to complete development of the rocket and get the vehicle to its first test flight, which had slipped to the second quarter of 2022. By June 2021, the date had delayed to late 2022. In June 2022, a delay was announced to “some time in 2023”and by October 2022, ESA clarified that the first launch would be no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2023, while providing no public reason for the delay. In August 2023, ESA announced that the date for the first launch had slipped again to 2024.
And now today they’ve lost it.
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/ariane-6-lifts-off-but-second-stage-anomaly-spoils-the-day/
“Later, however, an anomaly with the second stage spoiled the celebration and prevented it from reentering into the Pacific Ocean as planned. The stage remains in orbit.”
All the guests certainly seem very happy about whatever is going on.
I’m going to be the contrarian here and say, “Crap.” I like to see a multitude of space programs.
That being written, Space X is my favorite.
Note to the UK: You’re allowing this lot to lord it over you?!
Thank you. You took the words right out of my mouth.
Eurotrash is exactly right.
Yeah, well....the fact is they’re beating NASA at the space game and not so fixated on DEI and climate.
Is somebody on board?
You can have SPACEX to get stuff into orbit and we can have our SLS for graft and corruption. Win Win.
You sound like my wife. It's not my fault. I blame the blood pressure medicine.
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