{"id":792726,"date":"2025-01-16T03:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T08:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792726"},"modified":"2025-01-16T03:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T08:17:06","slug":"ariane-6-boosters-on-the-road-for-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792726","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 6 boosters on the road for liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The P120C boosters of\u00a0the second Ariane 6 to launch\u00a0were transported from the booster storage building\u00a0to the launch pad\u00a0at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana,\u00a0on 13 January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The P120C is 13.5 m long and 3.4 m in diameter, contains 142 tonnes of solid propellant and provides a maximum thrust of 4615 kN (in vacuum) over a burn time of about 135 s. It is the\u00a0largest-ever solid rocket motor built in one piece. For the next launch, two P120Cs will be strapped onto Ariane 6 as boosters for liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Ariane 6 is Europe\u2019s newest heavy-lift rocket, designed to provide great power and flexibility at a lower cost than its predecessors. The rocket provides Europe with greater efficiency and an ensures access to space for the benefits of humankind, allowing for all types of missions from exploration to navigation, science and communications.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/01\/Ariane_6_boosters_on_the_road_for_liftoff?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The P120C boosters of\u00a0the second Ariane 6 to launch\u00a0were transported from the booster storage building\u00a0to the launch pad\u00a0at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana,\u00a0on 13 January 2025. The P120C is 13.5&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}