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Jun 5
🚀 Mark your calendars.
On June 17th, Ariane 64 will launch 36 Amazon Leo satellites into orbit.
This will be the first Ariane 6 flight equipped with four P160C boosters, increasing its payload capacity from 32 to 36 satellites on a single launch.
🕒 Launch window:
- 07:53 - 08:22 (Washington, D.C.)
- 08:53 - 09:22 (Kourou Time)
- 11:53 – 12:22 (UTC)
- 13:53 - 14:22 (Paris time)
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Jun 11
📖 The #VA269 launch kit is now available.
Discover:
🛰️ 36 Amazon Leo satellites, Ariane's heaviest payload ever
🚀 Ariane 64's first flight with P160C boosters
🌍 Mission profile and key facts
Download it here: newsroom.arianespace.com/ari…
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Jun 10
🛰️ Encapsulation complete.
The 36 Amazon Leo satellites are now secured inside Ariane 6's fairing ahead of launch.
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Next stop: orbit.
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Jun 4
For the first time, Ariane 64 will fly with four P160C boosters.
📏 1 meter longer than P120C
🔥 156 tonnes of propellant
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The most powerful Ariane 6 configuration ever launched.
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May 29
Space is also a community. 🚀
The new Arianespace collection is now available online:
hoodies, tees, caps, mugs & bottles inspired by the Arianespace identity.
For everyone passionate about European access to space.
🛰️ Ready for launch?
bit.ly/ArianespaceShop
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May 28
Connectivity is becoming a fundamental infrastructure.
Low Earth Orbit constellations operate closer to Earth, reducing latency and enabling high-speed broadband worldwide, including remote and underserved regions.
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With Ariane 6 supporting the deployment of Amazon Leo’s constellation, Europe plays a role in expanding access to reliable connectivity at global scale.
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From education and healthcare to business and mobility, digital access drives economic and social opportunity.
Launch capability enables connectivity on Earth.
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May 25
Closer than you think 🌍✨
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) begins just a few hundred kilometers above us.
And yet, it plays a role in our everyday lives.
📡 Staying connected
🌦️ Forecasting the weather
🌍 Monitoring our planet in near real time
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May 25
In LEO, satellites orbit Earth at nearly 27,000 km/h, circling the planet in about 100 minutes.
It’s a dynamic environment, where precision and flexibility are key, especially for deploying constellations of satellites.
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Because this is where space meets Earth, every single day 🚀
👉 Do you know another satellite launched by Arianespace in LEO?
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May 22
Before satellites reach orbit, everything starts on the ground.
At Europe’s Spaceport, Arianespace teams bring their expertise to every step of the preparation process.
Inside the Payload Preparation Complex, each satellite undergoes a precise and carefully sequenced preparation process:
• Installation on dedicated platforms
• Functional testing to ensure mission readiness
• Propellant fueling under strict safety conditions
In these controlled environments at Europe’s Spaceport, multiple satellites can be processed simultaneously, meeting the highest standards of precision and safety.
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May 22
Once ready, satellites are transferred to the encapsulation building. There, they are integrated under the fairing using Ariane 6’s dedicated handling systems, forming the launcher’s upper composite.
This entire process requires seamless coordination, technical expertise, and absolute rigor, ensuring every satellite is fully prepared for launch.
Because mission success doesn’t start at liftoff. It starts here, on the ground.
Photos taken on VA266 mission - Galileo
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May 20
Launching Ambitions.
Space is not defined by a single mission.
It is shaped by a diversity of ambitions, to connect, to navigate, to observe and to protect.
Each mission comes with its own objectives, its own constraints, its own destination.
With Ariane 6, Arianespace is designed to meet this diversity with flexibility and performance.
From deploying constellations like Amazon Leo in low Earth orbit, enabling navigation with Galileo, observing our planet with Sentinel-1D, to supporting defense missions like CSO-3.
Ariane 6 adapts to a wide range of missions, customers and orbital requirements.
Because access to space is not one-size-fits-all.
It is about enabling every mission, every ambition.
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May 18
Space is already part of how we move, every day.
From daily commutes to emergency response, mobility increasingly relies on precise and reliable positioning.
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For emergency services, this accuracy can be critical, enabling faster interventions and better coordination when it matters most.
At Arianespace, we are proud to launch the Galileo satellites that make these applications possible.
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Because space is not only about reaching orbit.
It’s about improving life on Earth.
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