Europe’s new Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launching for 2nd time ever today: Watch live
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Editor’s note: The ARIANE 6 missile was cleaned in Europe with the CSO-3 mission on Monday morning, before 11 am East time (1600 GMT). The launch date and a new time have been announced by ArianesPace.
The strong ARIANE 6 missile in Europe will fly for the second time ever today (3 March), and you can see Action Live.
the Aryan 6 A satellite is scheduled to be launched from a French spy from Europe space In Coro, French Goyana today at 11:24 am US ES (1624 GMT; 1:24 pm local time in Coro).
You can see the movement directly here in Space.com or directly Through France -based ArianesPace. The coverage will start about 30 minutes before taking off.
Ariane 6, which works on behalf of European Space Agency (ESA), is the successor of the spine Aryan 5That retired in 2023 after 117 tropical missions.
It took longer than expected for the new rocket To access the Internet. The development of ARIANE 6 began in 2014, but the operator did not appear for the first time until last July, when it succeeded in this Send nine cubes to orbit. The journey did not go perfectly, however; The upper stage of the Ariane 6 failed to complete the burning of a designed engine to prepare the deployment of experimental re -entry capsules.
ESA was aimed at launching the second ARIANE 6 mission last year, but it took some additional time to address the problems it faces on Journey 1.
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Today’s launch will send a visual satellite called CSO-3 to the French army. If everything continues, CSO-3 will be published in the synchronous orbit of the sun, about 500 miles (800 km) above land.
Satellite in The coincided orbit A cruise on the planet spots at the same local solar every day, which means that they look at these areas with consistent light conditions over time. Therefore, this type of orbit is especially popular between spy and weather Satellite.
“CSO-3 is the third in a constellation of three military satellites for the Musis Program led by DGA (multinational space imaging system),” said the French Agency CNES at A. statement. (DGA, Direction Générale de L’Hramement, is the Defense Agency for the French government.)
The first member of the network, CSO-1 and CSO-2, was launched in 2018 and 2020, respectively.