Europe's Ariane 6 Rocket to Launch in July 2024 after Delay

TapTechNews June 5th news, after more than four years of delay, Europe's new-generation heavy-lift rocket has finally got its launch date determined.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that the Ariane 6 rocket is scheduled to carry out its first space flight mission on July 9, 2024, at the European Spaceport in French Guiana.

According to TapTechNews' research, the Ariane 6 rocket was initially planned to have its first flight in 2020, but it has been repeatedly postponed due to the pandemic and difficulties encountered in the development.

Since the Ariane 5 rocket completed its last flight in July 2023 (actually the Italian Vega-C commercial rocket had a test flight in 2022 but ended in failure), Europeans have lost the means to independently access space and have since been relying on SpaceX rockets for space launch missions. If this launch is successful, it will represent that Europe will regain the ability to independently access space.

The CEO of Ariane Group, Stéphane Israël, said that the Ariane 6 rocket has received 30 flight mission orders, and the main body of the first rocket has been installed on the ELA4 launch pad.