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threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu) w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Webcast commentary is back!

Edit: SES-2 confirmed!

Edit2: SECO-2. Nominal orbit confirmed. First payload deployments scheduled for T+1:05.

Edit3: Confirmation of cubesat deployments confirmed! Next up will be SES-3 at T+2:37.

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu) w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Looks like we have SECO-1 and nominal orbit insertion!

Edit: Webcast commentary scheduled to resume T+52 minutes for a circularization burn and the first set of payload deployments.

ricdeh, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Upper stage separation

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/98da06dd-d85e-4dd9-8d8f-186e2a7ed0b9.jpeg

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu

That was one of the more cinematic stage separations I’ve seen in a while. Beautiful shot from the upper stage camera.

Buzztiger, 10 miesięcy temu

Yes beautiful!

clothes, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m impressed by the quality of their onboard cameras, without the help of starlink.

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu

Seems like they might be between ground stations right now. Haven’t seen live video from the upper stage for a few minutes. Telemetry still looks good though.

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

MECO, stage separation, and stage 2 ignition confirmed!

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Fairing jettison confirmed!

ricdeh, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu) w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

All nominal, successful booster separation, fairing jettisoned

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

SRB separation confirmed!

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Décollage!

Tovervlag, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Thank you for the info. I’m watching because of you posting this.

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu

You’re welcome! Glad people find these threads useful!

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

ESA webcast is live! youtube.com/watch?v=B0oFpOJaIYc

clothes, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

FYI to everyone: there are several fake “ESA Official” YouTube channels running deepfaked Elon crypto scam streams that claim to be “Ariane 6 Launch Stream”.

They’re nothing new, but sharing in case anyone hasn’t seen it before. Those aren’t real streams!

Buzztiger, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Rocket fuelled up now , so everything going ahead smoothly…

Buzztiger, 10 miesięcy temu w How to watch the Ariane 6 Launch tonight (Tue) at 21:00 CEST (Amsterdam/Berlin)

If it reenables European sovereign and independent access to space it’s a success. Fingers crossed that it’s also as reliably as A5. Commercially I agree.

Buzztiger, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

So launch window start has been shifted by one hour according to my info: 21:00 - 00:00 Amsterdam/Berlin CEST.

threelonmusketeers, 10 miesięcy temu

Thanks! Updated the main post.

Buzztiger, 10 miesięcy temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Wohoo a proper launch thread. Thank you!

Let’s hope they manage to launch at the beginning of the window.

So for Amsterdam/Berlin timezone that’s starting at 20:00 tonight.