Ariane 6 Rocket First Flight Scheduled For July 2020
Ariane 6 Rocket First Flight Scheduled For July 2020:
The new EU Ariane 6 carrier rocket will be able to fulfill various tasks including ensuring manned space flights, President of the Ariane Group Alain Charmeau said.
“The United States is surpassing Europe due to resumption of NASA and SpaceX manned flights starting from 2019. India is also surpassing Europe due to the program scheduled for 2022. Ariane 6 has not thought about implementation of such a task [manned flights] but it will be able to adapt,” Charmeau told the Figaro newspaper.
The Ariane Group president pointed out that the company wanted to create a carrier rocket that would be able to fulfill a number of tasks and replace all current carrier rockets.
The Ariane 6 rocket will be able to place into orbit satellites with the weight from 50 kilograms (over 110 pounds) to more than 5 tonnes.
Construction of the first such rocket is going to start in late 2018 while the first flight is scheduled for July 16, 2020.
The Ariane 6 launcher will provide Arianespace with new levels of efficiency and flexibility to meet customers’ launch services needs across a full range of commercial and institutional missions.
To ensure Arianespace’s continued competitiveness, this next-generation launcher has been conceived for reduced production costs and design-to-build lead times, all while maintaining the quality and reliability that have made Ariane 5 an industry leader.
Ariane 6 features a modular configuration based on core stages powered by lower and upper liquid propellant modules, which that are supplemented by either two or four strap-on solid rocket motors.
Enhancing Ariane 6’s competitiveness is the series production of its rocket engines and a technology-sharing approach with Arianespace’s Vega C – particularly this lightweight launcher’s P120 engine that also will be used in Ariane 6’s solid rocket motors.
ArianeGroup is prime contractor and design authority for Ariane 6, while the European Space Agency (ESA) oversees procurement and architecture of the overall launch system.
Two versions of Ariane 6
A62: with two solid rocket motors
– Initial performance to geostationary transfer orbit: more than 5 metric tons
– Initial performance to sun-synchronous orbit (800 km.): more than 5.5 metric tons
A64: with four solid rocket motors
– Initial performance to geostationary transfer orbit: 11 metric tons with growth potential
– Initial performance to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO+, 2,200 km. perigee): 9.3 metric tons
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