18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
...and the engine is a move away from the traditional Ariane propellant technology. Not only does the engine have the potential...engine, Prometheus could cost just a tenth of what the current Ariane 5’s Vulcain 2 engine costs - that is a potential saving ...
14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... km polar orbit. "Today we opened a new era of European launch solutions, starting with Vega-C and soon to be complemented by Ariane 6,” stated Neuenschwander. Vega-C features a new, more powerful first stage, P120C, based on Vega's P80. Atop that...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...is no better with EADS, and its technically perfect rocket, Ariane-5. The market cost of the launch of one satellite is ... but it is an open secret that every commercial launch of Ariane-5 is subsidised from the budget of the European Space Agency. ...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...additive manufacturing technologies even for highly loaded launcher structures, with potential market opportunities on Ariane 5 and Ariane 6. To do so, high strength aluminium alloy will be substituted by Ti6Al4V. Despite using a denser material, the...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... optimise particle background properties. Figure 4 - e-ASTROGAM diagrams showing deployed configuration and as it would fit under an Ariane 6.2 fairing. The overall data generation rate will be about 8.0 Gigabit per orbit, and this amount of data...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
..., the two make up BepiColombo, which will be launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2018....Mercury Transport Module will be folded while inside the Ariane 5 rocket. Another test performed was the stacking...
