Farewell, Ariane 5. The main European carrier rocket flew into space last (video)

By the end of this year, and maybe longer, Eka remained without a launch vehicle, because the first Fly Arise 6 has not happened yet, Space writes. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! At 1 o'clock in Kiev, July 6, 2023, the ECA Space rocket made its last start from the Kura Space In French Guiana (South America). In about 2.

5 minutes of flight, solid fuel accelerators of the Ariene 5 missiles were separated from the main degree, and on a single engine the rocket took 2 satellites into space. The main degree engine switched off in about 9 minutes, and the useful cargo continued the upper degree, which was separated.

About 30 minutes after the start of the flight, the first heinrich-gertz satellite was released into a geostationary orbit above the ground, and after 3 minutes there flew there and the second Syracuse 4b satellite. Heinrich-Hertz is a German satellite, and Syracuse 4b is French. Both will rotate around our planet at a height of 35,800 meters above the Earth's surface.

Today's launch of the Arriene 5 rocket has completed 27 years of operation of these missiles, which were the main vehicles for the delivery of useful goods to space for ECA. As a result, Europe has been independent of suppliers of similar services from other countries of the world, such as the United States. The two-stage heavy rocket launcher Arise 5 was created by Airbus and first went into space in 1996. Although the debut launch ended in a disaster, almost all of the following were successful.

During prolonged operation, the rocket was several times upgraded and had 5 different configurations. The last two versions of the Arriene 5 EC/A and Ariane 5 ES rockets have been operated since 2009. According to ECA, the Ariene 5 rockets 5 performed 117 flights into space and brought 239 useful cargoes into orbit. Of all these missions, 96% were successful.

For more than 10 years, the creation of a new rocket launcher for the ECA called Arriene 6, which should be a decent replacement of Arriene 5. ECA has stated that the new rocket would allow you to launch more useful cargoes into space, and its itself will be cheaper. The new rocket will have two versions with two and four solid fuel accelerators. Initially, the first flight of the Ariane 6 was scheduled for 2020, then repeatedly transferred.