Ariane 62

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ArianeGroup (AG)

July 9, 2024

Description

The Ariane 6 family is currently under development by the European Space Agency, with two variations including the Ariane 62 with two solid boosters intended for government and scientific missions.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    63.0 m
  • Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Launch Mass
    530.0 T
  • Thrust
    10370.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ariane 62
  • Family
    ―
  • Variant
    62
  • Alias
    ―
  • Full Name
    Ariane 62
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $85000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    10900.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    5100.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
    ―
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    6450.0 kg

ArianeGroup

Commercial
CEO: Christophe Bruneau
AG 2015

ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) is an aerospace company based in France. A joint venture between Airbus and Safran, the company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux. It consists of three core arms: aerospace, defence and security.

Upcoming Spaceflights

Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B1

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Second of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Galileo L15 (FOC FM28 & FM31)

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Galileo L16 (FOC FM29 & FM30)

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Ariane 62 | ARIEL

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Atmospheric Remote sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large survey mission (ARIEL) is an ESA telescope. During its 4-year mission, ARIEL will observe 1000 planets orbiting distant stars and make the first large-scale survey of the chemistry of exoplanet atmospheres. For a selected number of exoplanets, ARIEL will also perform a deep survey of their cloud systems and study seasonal and daily atmospheric variations.

Sun-Earth L2
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Ariane 62 | Metop-SG A2

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Third of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B2

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Fourth of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Metop-SG A3

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Fifth of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Metop-SG B3

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: To Be Determined
Mission:

Sixth of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Previous Flights

flew on six previous launch(es).

Ariane 62 | MTG-I2

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Third of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.

Geostationary Transfer Orbit VA270
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Ariane 62 | Galileo L14 (FOC FM33 & FM34)

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.

Medium Earth Orbit VA266
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Ariane 62 | Sentinel-1D

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Sentinel-1D carries an advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface as part of the Sentinel-1 constellation.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Metop-SG A1

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | CSO-3

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The CSO-3 (Composante Spatiale Optique-3 satellite is the third of three new-generation high-resolution optical imaging satellites for the French military, replacing the Helios 2 spy satellite series.

Sun-Synchronous Orbit
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Ariane 62 | Maiden Flight

ArianeGroup | France
Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Maiden Flight of the Ariane 62 launch vehicle, carrying ten cubesats, two deployers, five experiments, and two reentry capsules.

Low Earth Orbit
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Recent Launches
Long March 2D
Success
2 hours, 51 minutes ago
PIESAT-2 13-16
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4 X-band synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites for the Chinese Earth observation satellite company PIESAT.

Electron
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Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)
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Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
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1 day, 20 hours ago
Glonass-K1 No. 20 (?)
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Kuaizhou 11
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2 days, 11 hours ago
SpaceTY-51 & 52
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2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.

Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 12 hours ago
USSF-259
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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