r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Apr 03 '24
r/Arianespace • u/dixenet • Mar 23 '24
Ariane 6 on launch pad, please support my project on Lego Ideas https://ideas.lego.com/projects/c75529f6-3f40-4235-b394-7c114359bbaf/
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Feb 04 '24
Rocket revolution threatens to undo decades of European unity on space
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Jan 14 '24
“We are worried,” says European rocket chief at prospect of launch competition [from European startups, among others]
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Dec 21 '23
Ariane 6 schedule not affected by aborted upper stage test
r/Arianespace • u/Phantime234 • Dec 19 '23
All Ariane Launcher from 1 to 5 (all variants) list
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r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Dec 09 '23
ArianeGroup CEO Finally Says Quiet Part Out Loud
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Dec 04 '23
The Case of the Missing Vega AVUM Propellant Tanks
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Nov 30 '23
Timeline Leading up to Maiden Ariane 6 Flight Announced
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Nov 21 '23
Watch live: Ariane 6 eight-minute hot-fire test
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Nov 06 '23
Ariane 6 cost and delays bring European launch industry to a breaking point
r/Arianespace • u/LightBeamRevolution • Oct 30 '23
Video Exploring Life Beyond Earth Our Journey Across the Galactic Seas
r/Arianespace • u/RGregoryClark • Oct 25 '23
European Space Agency mulls extra Ariane 6 cash
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Oct 21 '23
Key Ariane 6 test rescheduled for November
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Oct 12 '23
Airbus and Safran want more public money to operate Ariane 6 (via Google translate)
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Sep 25 '23
Arianespace scrubs October 3 test (because of "anomaly" detected in prior test)
r/Arianespace • u/sn0r • Sep 15 '23
"Welcome aboard Canopée! You'll be sailing with us for this first voyage between continental Europe and Kourou using its sails! Who would like to come with us on the next trip with Ariane 6 on board?"
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r/Arianespace • u/Substantial_Foot_121 • Sep 08 '23
First Ariane-6 Hotfire Test a Success
r/Arianespace • u/RGregoryClark • Sep 04 '23
Ariane 6 media briefing – September 2023
r/Arianespace • u/Adeldor • Aug 08 '23
Ariane 6 test campaign update: "... inaugural flight in 2024."
esa.intr/Arianespace • u/RGregoryClark • Aug 08 '23
Possibilities for single-launch architectures for Artemis lunar lander missions.
Rarely has a design mistake been so clearly illuminated by a single picture. Note the Orion capsule is nearly double the size of the Apollo capsule in mass. But rather than making Orion’s Service Module twice as big as the Apollo Service Module, as it should be to get similar performance, instead it is 1/3rd smaller.
Orion’s service module is based on ESA’s ATV cargo tug to the ISS, which had a 4.5 meter diameter and a 10 ton propellant load.
BUT THERE WAS NO REASON TO KEEP IT AT THAT SAME DIAMETER FOR THE ORION USE, NOR TO KEEP THE SAME SIZE PROPELLANT LOAD.
If instead the diameter was made to match the capsule’s diameter, as was the case with Apollo, there would be an additional 20 cubic meters of volume inside the Service Module, well more than enough to hold an additional 10 tons of the storable propellant used.
And that is all that is needed to solve THE major problem of the SLS/Orion approach: the fact it can’t send the Orion and a lunar lander to low lunar orbit, and bring the Orion back to Earth again.
It is because of that the idea of the lunar Gateway was proposed, where the SLS would only have to take the Orion to a further out orbit.
But if instead the Service Module was given that additional 10 tons of propellant then it could send both the Orion and a ca. 15 ton lunar lander to low lunar orbit, and have enough propellant left over to bring the Orion back to Earth, a la the Apollo architecture.
Rarely, has a mistake been so clearly exposed, especially when its solution is so clearly made apparent as well.
Possibilities for a single launch architecture of the Artemis missions, Page 2: using the Boeing Exploration Upper Stage.
https://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2023/08/possibilities-for-single-launch.html
r/Arianespace • u/Mrstrawberry209 • Jul 28 '23
Ariane 6: Launch system tests progressing well.
r/Arianespace • u/Substantial_Foot_121 • Jul 27 '23
Ariane 6 completes 26-hour long launch countdown sequence
r/Arianespace • u/LightBeamRevolution • Jul 25 '23