The name comes from the french spelling of the mythological character ariadne. Ariane 6 is a powerful, versatile, scalable launcher, designed to carry out an unrivalled range of missions in the institutional and commercial launch market Developed and built by arianegroup for the european space agency (esa), it symbolises successful european space cooperation. Ariane, family of launch vehicles developed as a means of independent access to space for the european space agency (esa) and as a launcher for commercial payloads. The contract secures the production of the p160c for the next years up to 2029 and is an important milestone for ariane 6 Developed jointly by arianegroup and avio through europropulsion, the p160c is a common solid rocket motor for boosters on ariane 6 and for vega c first stage, as a shared building block of the two european launcher families.
The success of ariane 6 is key for our european capability to access space Find out all about ariane 6, the new launcher developed and built by arianegroup, which combines high performance and competitiveness for all types of space missions to all orbits.
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