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✅Upper stage firing test
✅Transfer and verticalisation of central core
✅Transfer of the boosters to the launch pad

Next up:
🔜Ariane 6 qualification review results expected in the beginning of May
🔜Payload arrival in Kourou, French Guiana

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A booster awakes. Great skies for an early morning #Ariane6 rocket booster transport to the launchpad

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The first of two boosters that will power the Ariane 6 ‘flight model-1’ into space this summer has arrived at the launch zone at Centre spatial guyanais.

⛽️142 tonnes of solid rocket fuel
📏13.5 metres tall
🔥4500 kN of thrust
⌛️For up to 130 seconds
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Aujourd’hui, le corps central d' #Ariane6 a été transféré de son bâtiment d'assemblage vers son pas de tir pour être verticalisé en zone de lancement.

Les équipes CNES, ArianeGroup et European Space Agency étaient mobilisées pour cette étape qui marque le début de la 1ère campagne Ariane 6 !

ArianeGroup Arianespace CNES European Space Agency The process of 'verticalisation' took over 90 minutes.

In the next few days the boosters for the first Ariane 6 launch are set to arrive and moved into position next to the central core.

ArianeGroup Arianespace CNES European Space Agency Two automated vehicles at the bottom of the rocket worked in turn with the crane to lift and then move in 14 steps until the central core was standing upright.

ArianeGroup Arianespace CNES European Space Agency Once at the launch pad technicians attached a yellow lifting beam to one end to hoist the central core upright.

ArianeGroup Arianespace CNES European Space Agency The automated guided vehicles follow a magnetic strip under the road to the launchpad. This allows for more precision and so less torque stresses on the rocket than if a human was driving.

ArianeGroup Arianespace CNES European Space Agency The central core, that consists of the core stage and upper stage, was rolled out of the launcher assembly building this morning on four automated electric transporters

It’s never too soon to share your space dreams! Today, in our Women In Space series, we’d like you to meet Alizée, a pyrotechnics engineer at ArianeGroup, and her daughter Liwen, who is only 6 years old but is already an Ariane 6 expert!

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#Ariane6 standing tall.
The central core of Europe's new rocket was moved into its upright, launch, position today at Europe's Spaceport: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

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