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troyunrau, 4 miesiące temu w How to watch the Ariane 6 Launch tonight (Tue) at 21:00 CEST (Amsterdam/Berlin)

Godspeed! I don’t think Ariane 6 will go down in history as a successful rocket, mostly on account of the shift in economics forced on the rest of the industry by SpaceX. But I do get excited for debut launches – some very clever people worked very hard on this. :)

Buzztiger, 4 miesiące 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.

Buzztiger, 4 miesiące 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, 4 miesiące temu

Thanks! Updated the main post.

Buzztiger, 4 miesiące 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, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Rocket fuelled up now , so everything going ahead smoothly…

clothes, 4 miesiące 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!

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

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

Tovervlag, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

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

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu

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

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Décollage!

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

SRB separation confirmed!

ricdeh, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu) w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

All nominal, successful booster separation, fairing jettisoned

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

Fairing jettison confirmed!

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące temu w Ariane 6 Demo Flight Launch Thread! (ESA Rideshares)

MECO, stage separation, and stage 2 ignition confirmed!

ricdeh, 4 miesiące 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, 4 miesiące temu

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

Buzztiger, 4 miesiące temu

Yes beautiful!

clothes, 4 miesiące temu

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

threelonmusketeers, 4 miesiące 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, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące 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.