38K views · 1.4K reactions | 112 successes. Relive past Ariane 5 launches alongside us while waiting for the next chapter that is being written right now, just a few miles from this legendary launch pad. What was your favorite Ariane 5 launch? #OneLastAriane5 #Arianespace #ArianeGroup #Ariane5 ESA - European Space Agency CNES CSG Centre spatial guyanais | ArianeGroup | Facebook

201K views · 2.1K reactions | WATCH LIVE: 100th Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Carrying Two US Communications Satellites  | Interesting Engineering | Facebook

June 4th - on this day in 1996, ESA - European Space Agency conducted the first launch of its Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle. The payload consisted of four 1,200 kg Cluster satellites, which were intended to conduct research into the Earth's magnetosphere. 37 seconds after liftoff from CSG Centre spatial guyanais, the rocket veered off course and began to disintegrate, prior to being destroyed by the Range Safety Officer. The reasons for the failure were multiple embarrassing software errors

7.7K views · 544 reactions | Ariane 5 has delivered two satellites, JCSAT-17 and Geo-Kompsat-2B, into their planned transfer orbits. Learn more: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane_5_s_second_launch_of_2020 Credit: ESA-CNES-Arianespace, Photo Optique Vidéo CSG | ESA - European Space Agency | Facebook

🚀It's not rocket science... oh wait it is! Join Ariane 6 launch system architect, Tina, as she shows us a day in her life. Tina has worked on space transport systems for 20 years now, first on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), then on the Ariane 5 Mid-life Evolution development and now on Europe's newest launcher Ariane 6. How did she become a rocket scientist? "I was lucky enough to spend some months in French Guiana as a student for an internship and working there got me hooked – I was de

Europe's New Ariane 6 Rocket: First Flight Highlights | ESA FriendsofNASA.org: On July 9, 2024, Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket successfully powered into space taking with it a selection of experiments, satellites, payload deployers and reentry demonstrations that represent thousands across Europe—from students to industry and experienced space actors. This inaugural demonstration flight, designated VA262, is to show the capabilities of Ariane 6 in escaping Earth's gravity and operating in space. A