{"id":52966,"date":"2023-08-08T22:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ariane-6-wont-launch-until-2024-esa-says\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T22:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:31:05","slug":"ariane-6-wont-launch-until-2024-esa-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ariane-6-wont-launch-until-2024-esa-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 6 Won\u2019t Launch Until 2024, ESA Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The Ariane 6 rocket officially won\u2019t launch until 2024. The <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) gave an update to the Ariane 6 development on Tuesday, formally announcing a launch period for the inaugural flight is projected for 2024. Previous ESA updates indicated a very tight timeline to make a 2023 debut.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESA said a July 18 series of tests achieved 90% of their objectives, but developers were not able to perform short hot fire on the Vulcain 2.1 engine. A new test will be run on August 29 after the ground system is reconfigured.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESA plans for a press briefing on Sept. 4 to provide an update on the upper stage hot firing test 3, to be held in Lampoldshausen, Germany, on Sept. 1, followed by a long firing test of the core stage and its engine, the Vulcain 2.1, in Kourou, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 26.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Europe is currently dealing with a gap in heavy-lift launch capacity as the Ariane 5 rocket had its final mission in July. In its lifetime, the rocket placed 197 satellites into Geostationary Orbit (GEO), and deployed 239 satellites total. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ariane 6 rocket officially won\u2019t launch until 2024. The European Space Agency (ESA) gave an update to the Ariane 6 development on Tuesday, formally announcing a launch period for the inaugural flight is projected for 2024. Previous ESA updates indicated a very tight timeline to make a 2023 debut.&nbsp; ESA said a July 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}