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.
It will return to Earth eventually—perhaps in a lot of small pieces....
:-)
not to nitpick, but my English comp teacher taught us to never start a sentence with a preposition, and to be careful with the use of commas. Wracked? Racked? What has happened to Wikipedia?