Europe's next-generation heavy-lift rocket will not make its maiden flight before the fourth quarter of 2023.
The maiden flight of Europe's next-generation heavy-lift rocket, the Ariane 6, has been pushed back again.
And some flagship European spacecraft will now, in all likelihood, have to launch on American rockets in direct commercial competition with Ariane.Esa director general Josef Aschbacher said the new fourth-quarter target would hold only if outstanding technical objectives were met. The highly successful Ariane 5 dominated the world market for the launch of large satellites until US entrepreneur Elon Musk introduced his cheaper, reusable Falcon 9 rockets, in the 2010s.
Engineers hope to demonstrate the readiness of the pad and run through countdown procedures, such as the loading of propellants, and fire the main Vulcain engine at the base of the representative rocket.
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