Developed and built by arianegroup for the european space agency (esa), it symbolises successful european space cooperation. Ariane 6 will have the flexibility to launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation. Ariane is a series of european civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use
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The name comes from the french spelling of the mythological character ariadne.
Arianespace is the world's leading satellite launch company, operating a complete family of launchers
Ariane 5, soyuz and vega. Arianespace has confirmed that the first flight of the more powerful version of the ariane 6 rocket has been delayed until next year.
