Announcing the Ariane 6 inaugural flight target launch date at the Berlin airshow, ILA, 5 June 2024.
From left: CNES CEO Philippe Baptiste, ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni-Tolker Nielsen, Director General of the German Space Agency at DLR Walther Pelzer, ArianeGroup CEO Martin Sion, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël, ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.
Ariane 6 is Europe’s new heavy lift launch vehicle replacing its extremely successful predecessor, Ariane 5. Modular and agile, Ariane 6 has a reignitable upper stage allowing it to launch multiple missions on different orbits on a single flight.