#  @ESA_transport ESA Space Transport ESA Space Transport posts on X about french guiana, esa, cest, the first the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::854984419517616128/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +1,074% - [--] Month [-------] +375% - [--] Months [---------] +150% - [--] Year [---------] +10% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::854984419517616128/posts_active)  - [--] Month [--] +32% - [--] Months [---] +270% - [--] Year [---] -14% ### Followers: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::854984419517616128/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.63% - [--] Month [------] +1.60% - [--] Months [------] +7.60% - [--] Year [------] +16% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::854984419517616128/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [musicians](/list/musicians) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) **Social topic influence** [french guiana](/topic/french-guiana) #22, [esa](/topic/esa) #1868, [cest](/topic/cest), [the first](/topic/the-first), [france](/topic/france), [boost](/topic/boost), [germany](/topic/germany), [sweden](/topic/sweden), [future](/topic/future), [spain](/topic/spain) **Top assets mentioned** [Rocket Companies, Inc. (RKT)](/topic/rocket) [Waves (WAVES)](/topic/waves) [Sentinel (P2P)](/topic/sentinel) [ORBIT (GRIFT)](/topic/orbit) [TRENCHES (TRENCHES)](/topic/trenches) [BEAM (BEAM)](/topic/beam) [Celsius (CEL)](/topic/celsius) [Oxygen (OXY)](/topic/oxygen) [BLAST (BLAST)](/topic/blast) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Heres a pretty spectacular photo of todays #P120C test at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana #Ariane6 #VegaC #RocketsInTheJungle" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1018924197312155648) 2018-07-16T18:23Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "New #drone footage has just been released showing the construction of @Ariane6's future launch site as of February [----] 🏗 Ariane 6's maiden launch is scheduled for [----] taking off from its specially-made launch complex as seen below at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1100429242410651649) 2019-02-26T16:15Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "#Soyuz launcher #VS22 scheduled for take-off on April [--] is almost ready to launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana 🛰🌴Read more about the launch of #O3b satellites here: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-vs22/ http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-vs22/" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1113097844171464709) 2019-04-02T15:16Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "Timelapse magic: that's the #Ariane5 for #VA260 @ESA_Juice being moved from rocket assembly to final assembly where this awesome spacecraft will be loaded for an epic Journey to Jupiter Launch scheduled for [--] April from @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1640331719440990211) 2023-03-27T12:35Z 15.5K followers, 68K engagements "Ariane [--] will launch Argonaut in a direct flight to the Moon. 🚀🌑 Argonaut is #Europes autonomous lunar lander. Designed to be versatile it could bring cargo a rover production facilities or even a power station to the Moon: #InternationalMoonDay" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1682020291277627396) 2023-07-20T17:54Z 11.9K followers, 55.8K engagements "Teams preparing Ariane [--] for its inaugural flight successfully completed for the first time a launcher preparation and countdown sequence on [--] July at Europes Spaceport in Kourou French Guiana https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane_6_launch_system_tests_progressing_well https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane_6_launch_system_tests_progressing_well" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1683751447236673536) 2023-07-25T08:10Z 15.2K followers, 102.4K engagements "The final #Ariane5 launch: from integration to liftoff in under five minutes. 🚀 #VA261 #timelapse Full video:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1687864894236811264) 2023-08-05T16:35Z 11.9K followers, 51.8K engagements "Ariane 6's short hot firing test at Europes Spaceport in Kourou French Guiana was postponed on [--] August [----] due to a technical issue affecting the control bench governing the critical fluidic operations (the launchers filling and the automated countdown). Specialists are working on a solution. The next attempt is planned for [--] September 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1696795057519464733) 2023-08-30T08:00Z 12K followers, 87.5K engagements "✅Another hot-fire test complete. 🔥 Trial by fire for #Ariane6 upper stage with Vinci engine and Auxiliary Power unit firing @DLR_de site in Lampoldshausen Germany:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1697727466154971319) 2023-09-01T21:45Z 11.9K followers, 47K engagements "🔴Live now #Ariane6 media briefing on progress achieved and upcoming steps for Ariane [--] tests being conducted at Spaceport Europe in Kourou French Guiana and at the German aerospace agency @DLR_ens technical centre in Lampoldshausen Germany:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1698638703868948850) 2023-09-04T10:06Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements "Fuelled-up dress rehearsal for #Ariane6 with ignition of Vulcain [---] engine 🔥:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1699331027372560613) 2023-09-06T07:57Z 11.3K followers, 43.9K engagements "Straight to ignition Teams from @esa @CNES and @ArianeGroup worked many hours to get #Ariane6 fuelled up to start the Vulcain [---] engine but we cut straight to ignition for instant satisfaction. 🔥👏 Full video and download:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1699343779910590800) 2023-09-06T08:48Z 12.3K followers, 56.4K engagements "Power of [--] Three firings of three #European rocket engines in three different countries this month. 🚀🧵 [--] @ArianeGroup's restartable Vinci engine was tested @DLR_de and fired for [--] minutes in two ignitions:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1701966005512081846) 2023-09-13T14:28Z 12K followers, 47K engagements "2 The Vulcain [---] main engine for #Ariane6 fired for four seconds @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana operated by @CNES - the next test will see it fire for a full [--] minutes" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1701966012306862299) 2023-09-13T14:28Z 12K followers, [----] engagements "Helping the #European private sector to develop technological building blocks is an important focus of @esa's Future Launchers Preparatory Programme:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1704090483612332492) 2023-09-19T11:10Z 11.3K followers, 25.6K engagements "One project is helping partners develop proof-of-concept in-space transportation vehicles. These vehicles will be able to dock with spacecraft and cargo take payloads carry them to their final orbits and refuel themselves in orbit such as @D_Orbit:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1704090485805986216) 2023-09-19T11:10Z 11.3K followers, [---] engagements "#Ariane6 Launcher Task Force update📄 - latest report on progress towards inaugural launch from @esa @ArianeGroup @Arianespace @CNES: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_joint_update_report_21_September_2023 Ariane [--] task force update: great data and results from the hot-fire September tests for #Ariane6 both in French Guiana and Germany. However an anomaly was detected in the thrust control vector hydraulics when preparing for the next test and the long-duration hot firing test" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1704880418825089364) 2023-09-21T15:29Z 15.6K followers, 34.7K engagements "🚀Next launch: Vega flight #VV23 leaving @EuropeSpacePort on October [--] at 22:36 local time October [--] 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST). Onboard are main passengers: 🛰 Theos-2: @GISTDA Earth observation 🛰 Triton: @TASA_Taiwan ocean wind monitor And more: 🛰 ANSER: @intaespana fuel-free formation flyers 🛰ESTCube-2: @unitartu plasma-brake demonstrator 🛰N3SS: @cnes radio jammer detector 🛰PRETTY: @tugraz measuring ice and sea height 🛰Proba-V companion cubesat: @esa vegetation monitor 🛰CSC-1 & 2: @EU4Space tech-demonstrator" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1709917457597526060) 2023-10-05T13:04Z 12.3K followers, 36.9K engagements "Launching into space on Vega flight #VV23 is the ANSER mission Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research. It consists of three fuel-free cubesats that will fly in formation skipping of our atmosphere. The #cubesats will use wing-like flaps to keep formation and are named after the Latin name for the wild goose:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1710218873813733555) 2023-10-06T09:02Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements "ESTCube-2 from Estonia is set to launch on Vega flight #VV23 🚀 into space tonight to demonstrate plasma-braking using a 50-m long interweaved aluminium line made up of wires just [----] mm thick. As it drags through the ionosphere it will pull the satellite back to Earth https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Vega_s_ESTCube-2_tether_to_the_future https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Vega_s_ESTCube-2_tether_to_the_future" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1710278471115506116) 2023-10-06T12:58Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Ready for launch. 🚀 The Vega rocket's mobile gantry has been rolled away (left) and Vega #VV23 is ready for liftoff (right) at 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST) today" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1710463202503327984) 2023-10-07T01:13Z 11.9K followers, 11.6K engagements "🟢 Weather is for GO for launch of Vega rocket #VV23 scheduled for 🚀 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST) today. 📺 Watch the liftoff live launch transmission has started:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1710465979182969082) 2023-10-07T01:24Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "Green all round Vega the @EuropeSpacePort launch pad and the #VV23 passengers are ready for launch 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1710466665211719710) 2023-10-07T01:26Z 11.9K followers, [---] engagements "New launch date for Vega #VV23 October [--] 22:36 local time October [--] 02:36 BST 03:36 CEST 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711063257098625154) 2023-10-08T16:57Z 11.4K followers, 152.8K engagements "Watch live : Vega flight #VV23 set to launch [--] missions into space. 📺Live transmission starts at 02:15 BST (03:15 CEST) today: 🚀Liftoff set for [--] October at 22:36 local @EuropeSpacePort time [--] October 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST)" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711178654330323107) 2023-10-09T00:35Z 11.9K followers, 122K engagements "The Vega #VV23 upper stage is now flying around Earth on target. The upper stage will ignite for a second time at liftoff+51 minutes so 03:27 BST (04:27 CEST) to release the main passengers Earth-observers Theos-2 and Triton into their orbits. Graphic from @Arianespace:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711203768535056836) 2023-10-09T02:15Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Arianespace The upper stage has fired for [---] minutes and the two satellites Triton and Theos-2 have been released simultaneously into their sun-synchronous orbits 👏" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711208124089008184) 2023-10-09T02:33Z 12K followers, [---] engagements "@Arianespace The Vega #VV23 upper stage's third boost is now complete there are still [--] more missions to deliver into orbit. These smaller satellites will be released at liftoff+103 minutes so at 04:19 BST (05:19 CEST) The upper stage is currently flying at [---] km above Earth" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711211349210984843) 2023-10-09T02:45Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "Vega flies to bring Earth-observing Theos-2 and Triton satellites to space and more. 🚀🛰🌎 #VV23 👉" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711250217704497663) 2023-10-09T05:20Z 11.3K followers, 15.5K engagements "🚀👏 Last Saturday @PLD_Space launched its #MIURA1 rocket from Spain" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1711766267986678158) 2023-10-10T15:30Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements "Space Team #Europe: these are the people behind Vega's latest launch #VV23: passionate about flying 🛫🚀 from an early age Calogero Savoca from Italy is Assistant Production Group Manager at Europropulsion @Avio_Group and @ArianeGroup" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1712480962498756982) 2023-10-12T14:50Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "#SpaceTeamEurope Vega edition: Riccardo Guglielmini loves seeing Vega on the launchpad 🚀 and provided technical support during the mechanical and pyrotechnic integration operations for the #VV23 campaign @Avio_Group" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1713933582631145505) 2023-10-16T15:03Z 12K followers, [----] engagements "💥".when working with liquid oxygen if things go wrong they go wrong very quickly" It's crunch time for @esa's Phoebus project that is looking to carbon fibre-reinforced plastic for the next generation of rocket fuel tanks. Light-weight strong leak-tight and non-reactive last week a key element of the Phoebus project passed its test-readiness review and was given the go-ahead to proceed for testing where a 2-m-diameter model oxygen tank will be tested as if it were really flying" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1716816963073401027) 2023-10-24T14:00Z 11.4K followers, 26.4K engagements "Nighttime rehearsal for Ariane [--] towards first flight 🚀 Yesterday a team of @CNES @ESA @Arianespace and @ArianeGroup personnel at @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou French Guiana completed a full-scale wet rehearsal of the new #Ariane [--] rocket that was fuelled and then drained of its fuel. The test lasted over [--] hours with three teams working in shifts of [--] hours each. The test concentrated on system robustness and how well Ariane [--] and the teams handle situations at the edge of the operational parameters. This time the operations were performed at night to test operations in cooler ambient" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1717152063530926362) 2023-10-25T12:12Z 11.3K followers, 91.4K engagements "Europe's LOX-methane reusable rocket engine project made notable summer-autumn progress with 30-second burn reignition #Prometheus 🚀 update:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1717520319383007696) 2023-10-26T12:35Z 11.4K followers, 14.7K engagements "Yesterday we signed a small contract extension with @isaraerospace who are gearing up to launch from Norway's Andya spaceport 🚀. A key element of this is the development and evaluation of an automated flight termination system building on the partnership established between Isar Aerospace and Andya Spaceport. Have a look at last week's Isar Aeropsace engine test for its Spectrum rocket 🔥 :" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1720025099309404298) 2023-11-02T10:28Z 11.4K followers, 11.4K engagements "Shipping rockets: #Ariane6 on board. 🚢🚀 The wonderful hybrid-wind-powered vessel Canope arrived in Pariacabo harbor in French Guiana today for @EuropeSpacePort" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1720465265803051277) 2023-11-03T15:37Z 12.3K followers, 28.4K engagements "A test model for a next-generation rocket fuel tank made of carbon-fibre Phoebus is passing tests and making progress: 1Helium test: the tank has shown itself to be leak-tight to room-temperature helium using the same criteria as for existing metallic rocket tanks ✅ 2Cryogenic pressure test - using liquid nitrogen the tank has sustained at cryogenic temperatures pressures above those expected to be seen in operation. ✅ Next up: 3Liquid oxygen test - to see how Phoebus holds up with this reactive liquid. Since this can be dangerous if things do go wrong Phoebus will be moved to Unterl Germany" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1723013176260735051) 2023-11-10T16:22Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements "Our director of space transportation visited @orbexspace in Denmark last week an Orbex facility for 🚀 propulsion testing software avionics and business services. 🤝 @esa has partnered with several innovators in #European space transportation:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1724033877331632576) 2023-11-13T11:58Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "📺 Watch live: #Ariane6 launch rehearsal with 8-minute core stage engine firing. 📅 [--] November 20:10 GMT (21:10 CET 17:10 local time) on #ESAWebTV: Learn more about the test: Here's the Vulcain [---] engine firing last time 🔥👀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1726640478677074119) 2023-11-20T16:35Z 11.9K followers, 277.2K engagements "In just [--] minutes on Thursday our #Ariane6 test model main stage is set to burn through [---] [---] kg of super-cooled 🥶 liquid oxygen (180C) and liquid hydrogen (252C): heating its Vulcain [---] engine up to 3000C 📺More info and how to watch live :" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727063509455065491) 2023-11-21T20:36Z 11.9K followers, 23.2K engagements "Join us tomorrow evening for a live test of #Europe's newest most powerful rocket: #Ariane6 hot fire 🔥 For [--] minutes the core stage's Vulcain [---] engine will fire - the time it would take to launch. Watch live on #ESAWebTV as we burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen and reach temperatures up to 3000C to prepare the powerful engine core stage and launch pad for Ariane 6's first flight:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727321632018985012) 2023-11-22T13:42Z 11.9K followers, 10.4K engagements "Overnight @CNES @ArianeGroup and @esa personnel have been preparing the #Ariane6 helium pressurisation system for tanking. Weather is favourable for today's hot-fire test 🔥 Watch live from 21:10 CET (20:10 GMT 17:10 local time @EuropeSpacePort):" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727581322426638720) 2023-11-23T06:54Z 11.9K followers, 132.3K engagements "Things are going smoothly over @EuropeSpacePort in preparation for tonight's core stage hot-fire test of #Ariane6. 🔥 The liquid oxygen turbo pump chill-down has begun. The turbo pumps push the super-chilled liquid propellants to the Vulcain [---] engine the hydrogen turbo pump alone produces more power than a high-speed TGV train 🚄🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727755118467014819) 2023-11-23T18:24Z 11.9K followers, 11.4K engagements "📺 Watch live: #Ariane6 launch rehearsal with 8-minute core stage engine firing. 🔥 Things are progressing smoothly and we are [--] minutes ahead of schedule. 📺Livestream starts today on #ESAWebTV at 20:40 CET (19:40 GMT 16:40 local) 🔥 Engine ignition scheduled for 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT 17:00 local) Learn more about the test: What to expect 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727758366917702032) 2023-11-23T18:37Z 11.9K followers, 142.1K engagements "@CNES @ArianeGroup @esa @EuropeSpacePort New times we are [--] minutes ahead of schedule: 📺Livestream starting at 20:40 CET(19:40 GMT 16:40 local) 🔥 Vulcain [---] engine ignition now scheduled at 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT 17:00 local)" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727760214424687080) 2023-11-23T18:45Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "New times we are [--] minutes ahead of schedule: 📺Livestream starting at 20:40 CET(19:40 GMT 16:40 local) 🔥 Vulcain [---] engine ignition now scheduled at 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT 17:00 local)" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727760461234368770) 2023-11-23T18:46Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "10 minutes to ignition of the Vulcain [---] engine for #Ariane6 in today's test of the complete core stage. 🟩 All signs are green and the Director of Operations and the Launch Campaign Operations Manager have met and confirmed we are GO for the ignition of the engine. 🔥 Live:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727777159534514399) 2023-11-23T19:52Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "5 minutes to #Ariane6 main engine ignition in today's hot-fire test. 🔥 The Vulcain [---] engine will fire for eight minutes and burn through [---] [---] kg of propellant. 📺Watch live:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727778025280844204) 2023-11-23T19:55Z 11.9K followers, 10.4K engagements "We are paused at -02:42 before engine ignition Ariane [--] is in safe waiting mode. The #Ariane6 launcher itself has taken control as planned in the countdown and its software takes decisions for ignition engine control and safety. We are waiting for a new time for ignition" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727781224251306261) 2023-11-23T20:08Z 11.9K followers, 63.8K engagements "We are back and the countdown clock is again at -05:00 after a small anomaly in the transient threshold pressure which was slightly different from our predictions. This is why we test #Ariane6 Watch live for engine ignition:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727789822943875229) 2023-11-23T20:42Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements "We have ignition of the #Ariane6 main stage in today's test as water vapour extends from its exhaust trenches. The engine is now at full throttle for the next eight minutes" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727790834504892434) 2023-11-23T20:46Z 11.9K followers, 12.7K engagements "Main engine cut off for #Ariane6 on today's test. 🔥👏 In less than eight minutes [---] [---] kg of liquid hydrogen and oxygen were burnt if this was a real launch Ariane [--] would now be in orbit" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727793147713843281) 2023-11-23T20:56Z 12K followers, 115K engagements "Replay of the #Ariane6 core stage hot-fire test🔥. Watch the thruster nozzle moving. 👀 During a launch this movement would compensate for aerodynamic forces pushing Ariane [--] off course. Small changes made automatically by the rockets avionics will keep Ariane [--] heading to the stars 🚀. Like balancing a pencil vertically on your finger small rapid movements are key to keeping upright ✏" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1727813417052889363) 2023-11-23T22:16Z 11.9K followers, 71K engagements "Ariane [--] was not supposed to have pierced the clouds yesterday but it brought them down to Earth. ☁🌎 Impressive drone views from the #Ariane6 main stage test. As the stage uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellant the clouds you see are H20: water vapour ☁🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1728013324376310006) 2023-11-24T11:30Z 11.9K followers, 46.4K engagements "The countdown to last week's #Ariane6 hot-fire test started [--] hours before engine ignition for seven minutes of fire. 🔥 ☁ This #timelapse condenses operations @EuropeSpacePort into just [--] minutes 🤩 ☁ We will be broadcasting next steps for Europe's rocket on #ESAWebTV today at 09:00 CET (08:00 GMT):" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1730108176903672114) 2023-11-30T06:15Z 12K followers, [----] engagements "Earlier this year we tested the #Themis landing legs built by Almatech in Swizterland . Like Swiss clockwork they deployed perfectly relying only on gravity to fall into position" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1732437433487147206) 2023-12-06T16:30Z 12K followers, [---] engagements "Two #Themis models are being worked on at @ArianeGroup's site in Vernon France : Themis [--] Ground (T1G left) and the first flight model Themis [--] Hop (T1H right). Hop tests with T1H are planned next year from @SSCspace's Esrange launch site in Sweden " [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1732437435500412973) 2023-12-06T16:30Z 12K followers, [----] engagements "The Orbex Prime rocket measures [--] m high and is powered by a cluster of 3D-printed engines that run on liquid oxygen and bio-propane a clean-burning renewable fuel. Prime is also being designed to be reusable in the future" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1734911290697490510) 2023-12-13T12:20Z 12K followers, [---] engagements "Headquartered in Scotland UK with a site in Denmark @orbexspace is a #European company developing the Prime two-stage rocket that will launch small satellites up to [---] kg to low Earth orbits" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1734911293973258250) 2023-12-13T12:21Z 12K followers, [---] engagements "If rocket building were a game #Europes heavy-lift launcher Ariane [--] passed a final test on hard mode. Last Friday @CNES @ArianeGroup and @esa completed the last of the super-cool propellant-loading tests for #Ariane6 including a four-second ignition of the main stage 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1737115108428706264) 2023-12-19T14:18Z 11.5K followers, 47.3K engagements "The combined test loading called CTLO3 was the last in a series of rehearsals on the full-scale rocket to practice launch operations for #Ariane6 and the final one before its first flight next year. It included tests of "ultimate contingency modes"" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1737115114787225642) 2023-12-19T14:18Z 12K followers, [----] engagements "The test moved the Vulcain [---] engine nozzle to simulate extreme ignition conditions and degraded modes of liftoff. This video from a previous test shows how the nozzle can move to keep Ariane [--] on course as it heads up to space. 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1737115119379992806) 2023-12-19T14:18Z 12K followers, [----] engagements "The Phoebus programme is on a roll. Phoebus aims to produce upper stage tanks and structures in carbon fibre and so far it is acing its tests. 💪 Helium leak test ✅ Cryogenic pressure test ✅ Liquid oxygen test✅ Details and update:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1737483908436951172) 2023-12-20T14:43Z 12K followers, 19.7K engagements "What do you get if you cross #GreenHydrogen with the location of Europe's Spaceport French Guiana and . iguanas #Hyguane 🚀🦎🔋💚" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1737796943827304659) 2023-12-21T11:27Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements "For [--] years ESA has been shaping the future in space. That continues as brand-new rockets are set to take flight: some reusable carbon-neutral hybrid little large crewed uncrewed to Earth orbit and to deep space the journey continues. #HappyNewYear🥳 #HappyNewSpace🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1741746094625755619) 2024-01-01T09:00Z 12K followers, 31K engagements "321. cryo arms disengage The #Ariane6 fuelling arms connecting the test model were retracted yesterday @EuropeSpacePort. This marks the start of dismantling operations to make way for first launch🤗🚀 More in this month's Ariane [--] task force update: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_joint_update_report_31_January_2024 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_joint_update_report_31_January_2024" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1752650771567415536) 2024-01-31T11:11Z 15.7K followers, 43.4K engagements "We have two new calls for ideas open for reusable rocket boosters and engines. Read up and apply : Technologies for high-thrust reusable space transportation: 🚀 New concepts for reusable booster or first stages:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1755853797891449120) 2024-02-09T07:19Z 12.4K followers, 18.2K engagements "Have a product or technology that needs to be qualified in space 🛰 With the Flight Ticket Initiative @EU_Commission and @esa offer opportunities to fly technologies on a satellite mission. Apply now for a sponsored opportunity to fly your project:" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1758418137622446279) 2024-02-16T09:08Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements "@esa @PLD_Space @esa_es Miura [--] is the next step in the @PLD_Space launch services portfolio for customers who want to launch small satellites into orbit. The rocket will be [--] m in diameter and have two stages to propel payloads to orbit launching from @EuropeSpacePort" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1759531532526522795) 2024-02-19T10:53Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements "In October [----] PLD Space inaugurated their suborbital launch vehicle Miura [--] from the El Arenosillo Test Centre in Spain . 🚀Miura [--] is designed to send up to [---] kg up to heights of [---] km above Earth offering short periods of weightlessness for researchers and other customers" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1759531885103915290) 2024-02-19T10:54Z 12.4K followers, [---] engagements "A rocket ship docks. Yesterday the hybrid sailship Canope arrived @EuropeSpacePort with the upper and main stage for the first flight of Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 ⛵🚀 The four masts are for the sails that are furled while at harbour" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1760643497533505560) 2024-02-22T12:31Z 12.5K followers, 42.1K engagements "#Ariane6 arrived on Wednesday at the port of Pariacabo in Kourou French Guiana Europes Spaceport via the impressive custom-built Canope ship. They travelled for [--] days covering [----] km from Bremen in Germany to Le Havre in France. But the journey is just beginning" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1760961073920815402) 2024-02-23T09:33Z 15.4K followers, 31K engagements "Now that's a space ship. From dream to reality from Germany to France to French Guiana. #Ariane6 is on its way 💭✨🔧🚢🌴🚀🥳" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1761043627722084384) 2024-02-23T15:01Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements "Get the interview via @spaceinfoclub here: Have you ever heard about @esas Space Rider program We had the pleasure to ask @DanteGalli76 - Space Rider Programme Manager some questions insights and some tales about his path towards being involved in this amazing and futuristic program. https://t.co/sJFlbU1ZiE https://t.co/boiaX4FXZ3 Have you ever heard about @esas Space Rider program We had the pleasure to ask @DanteGalli76 - Space Rider Programme Manager some questions insights and some tales about his path towards being involved in this amazing and futuristic program. https://t.co/sJFlbU1ZiE" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1762024912657563929) 2024-02-26T08:00Z 12.5K followers, 26.5K engagements "#Ariane6 booster ready and on the move. Here seen rumbling along at a slower pace once alight this booster will help propel #Europe's new rocket Ariane [--] to supersonic speeds in just [--] seconds 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1770381714717540565) 2024-03-20T09:27Z 12.6K followers, 54.8K engagements "The P120C solid rocket boosters [----] m long and [---] m in diameter are #Europes solid propulsion workhorse. Filled with about [---] tonnes of solid propellant they provide around [----] kN of maximum thrust" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1770381727841517866) 2024-03-20T09:27Z 12.6K followers, [---] engagements "The first booster is now in a storage building awaiting transfer to the launch pad. The second booster is already being worked on having recently arrived from the propulsion integration building a little further away at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1770381734992851034) 2024-03-20T09:27Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements "#Ariane [--] upper and core stage: connected 🪢 Together they form the central part of Europe's new rocket Ariane [--] that is set to fly for the first time this summer" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1770851510970163533) 2024-03-21T16:34Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements "@EmmanuelMacron @CNES @EuropeSpacePort @Arianespace @ArianeGroup The President addressed the teams working on Ariane [--] in the launcher assembly building in the background is the rocket's upper stage and core stage that will soar into space soon" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1772923233840333068) 2024-03-27T09:46Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements "@EmmanuelMacron @CNES @EuropeSpacePort @Arianespace @ArianeGroup Also present was Toni Tolker-Nielsen ESAs Director of Space Transportation Philippe Baptiste CEO of Frances space agency @CNES Martin Sion CEO of @ArianeGroup Stphane Isral CEO of @Arianespace and the mayor of Kourou French Guiana @ville_de_Kourou" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1772925415817973865) 2024-03-27T09:55Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements "🛰🛰 ☀ 🕵♀🕵♂ #Ariane6 launches: @NASA's CURIE a first-of-a-kind radio detective. 🔎 🚀 This #CubeSat duo will use interferometry to monitor radio waves from the Sun and pinpoint the origin of radio sources in the Universe 🌌 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_NASA_s_CURIE_first-of-a-kind_radio_detective https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_NASA_s_CURIE_first-of-a-kind_radio_detective" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1775193864464130541) 2024-04-02T16:09Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements "Ariane [--] elements are made in Europe and shipped across the Atlantic on the hybrid sailboat Canope as complete stages" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1775539605174894725) 2024-04-03T15:03Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "The elements arrive at the harbour of Kourou French Guiana where they are offloaded and moved by truck for integration in their assembly halls" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1775539609994162542) 2024-04-03T15:03Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "Click Is the sound we imagine when connecting two rocket stages. Timelapse of the upper and core stage of Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 being assembled on [--] March" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1781960758965715426) 2024-04-21T08:18Z 15.5K followers, 17.6K engagements "🚀#Ariane6 has wings. The first Ariane [--] rocket to take flight is being pieced together at @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou French Guiana. Its two boosters have now been connected to and are supporting the rocket's central core. One step closer to launch" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1785352260521783608) 2024-04-30T16:55Z 15K followers, 33.7K engagements "Wait for it. the cubesat's defining visual feature is it's elephant trunk: a 0.5-meter spring-like antenna that will take up very little space until deployed. Once in orbit it will spring open to perform observations usually the domain of larger missions providing a powerful eye on Earth despite its portable travel size" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1788131273480843744) 2024-05-08T08:58Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements "The @la_UPC 3Cat-4 mission team will be stationed in their control room at the Barcelona Operations Centre in Spain for launch from where they will command the satellite and receive its telemetry and scientific data via their Montsec Ground Station located in the Pyrenees Spain" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1788131276584591720) 2024-05-08T08:58Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements "Two boosters and a central core make up the first #Ariane6. Three days of operations to assemble Europe's next rocket shown in less than three minutes" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1789982654097432951) 2024-05-13T11:34Z 13K followers, 55.3K engagements "Ariane [--] is built in countries across Europe and transported to @EuropeSpacePort via the partially wind-powered Canope. ⛵ The ship is the first custom-built transporter to use sails reducing emissions and saving on fuel by up to 30%" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1790753454022922621) 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [----] engagements "The Ariane [--] launch pad was built by @CNES to lessen the site's carbon footprint and preserve local natural resources. The location was chosen to avoid interfering with protected species" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1790753457298718782) 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "💧Tonnes of water are pumped out from the Ariane [--] water deluge system during a launch to suppress the noise of the engines as they roar to space. This water is now carefully recuperated during every launch and stored for the next. ♻" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1790753459840373089) 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "To make the rocket fuel the HYGUANE (HYdrogne GUyanais A Neutralit Environnementale) project will enable solar-powered electrolysis of water which reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in creating hydrogen over current manufacturing by a factor of five" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1790753462260556159) 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "The Ariane [--] upper stage can be stopped and restarted so a final ignition can deorbit the upper stage to burn up in Earth's atmosphere or reorbit it into a graveyard orbit out of the way of potential collision with operational satellites or space debris" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1790753465351676396) 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "#Ariane6 launches Replicator 3D printing in open space With 'Replicator' Orbital Matter aims to print a [--] cm-long beam while at an altitude of [---] km out of polymer material" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1791124091300098330) 2024-05-16T15:10Z 13K followers, [----] engagements "And yes the Replicator name is an homage to manufacturing methods in science fiction: from @StarTrek's Replicators that could synthesise meals on demand to @stargatecommand's Replicators capable of reproducing themselves indefinitely. Read more: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_Replicator_3D_printing_in_open_space https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_Replicator_3D_printing_in_open_space" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1791124094173299074) 2024-05-16T15:10Z 13K followers, [---] engagements "Faces of #Ariane6: Franck is responsible for the fuel connection systems for Europe's next rocket (the 13-m long yellow arms that retract last-second on liftoff) and he's also a singer in a rock band 🎤🤘 but Space Oddity is not his favourite song.👨🎤 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Faces_of_Ariane_6_Franck https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Faces_of_Ariane_6_Franck" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1792094961858383901) 2024-05-19T07:28Z 13K followers, [----] engagements "An opportunity for companies to support us @EuropeSpacePort: @ESA and @CNES have modernisation and maintenance contract opportunities for work at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/Digital_modernisation_and_extraordinary_maintenance_contracts_at_Europe_s_Spaceport https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/Digital_modernisation_and_extraordinary_maintenance_contracts_at_Europe_s_Spaceport" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1794995936730529997) 2024-05-27T07:35Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements "Successful engine test boosts Vega-C towards return-to-flight. The Zefiro-40 solid rocket motor was tested today by Vega-C prime contractor @Avio_Group" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1795472605882851476) 2024-05-28T15:10Z 13K followers, 25K engagements "@orbexspace @D_Orbit and its last-mile satellite delivery service https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_gives_a_Boost_to_D-Orbit_industrial_ramp-up_plans https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_gives_a_Boost_to_D-Orbit_industrial_ramp-up_plans" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1798617355289067838) 2024-06-06T07:26Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements "@orbexspace @D_Orbit The @Skyrora_Ltd 23-meter 56-tonne three-stage XL launcher https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_boost_for_UK_space_transportation_initiatives https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_boost_for_UK_space_transportation_initiatives" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1798618016697250257) 2024-06-06T07:28Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements "GRBBeta from @spacemanictech will launch on #Ariane6's first flight a successor to GRBAlpha the worlds smallest astrophysics space observatory and the first CubeSat to detect a gamma-ray burst from space🌟🧨👀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1801589833548116317) 2024-06-14T12:17Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Gamma-ray bursts are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies. They are the brightest and most extreme explosive events in the Universe a typical 'GRB' releases as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime🫨" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1801589838493233523) 2024-06-14T12:17Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements "Building on Alphas success GRBBeta will serve as a testbed for a range of new technologies that will be vital for future constellations of GRB-detecting satellites and other CubeSat missions. 📸Spacemanic team" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1801589841605304361) 2024-06-14T12:17Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements "While Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 might steal the show its launch pad is a wonder of human engineering in itself 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1803775913739362706) 2024-06-20T13:04Z 15.3K followers, 37.2K engagements "The all-new launch zone for Ariane [--] was built @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana an area that covers roughly the same area as Berlin Germany. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/10/Europe_s_Spaceport_seen_from_space https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/10/Europe_s_Spaceport_seen_from_space" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1803775916910239969) 2024-06-20T13:04Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements "Built and operated by Frances space agency @CNES the launch complex for #Ariane6 called ELA4 was built from the ground up. The site was chosen for its deep rocky subsoil capable of supporting the heaviest 900-tonne variant of Ariane [--] and its liftoff thrust" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1803775920139866508) 2024-06-20T13:04Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements "Ariane [--] is kept inside a colossal 90-m-tall building that weighs more than the Eiffel tower. Before launch it rolls [---] m away in [--] minutes leaving our rocket a clear view of the skies. 🌬The building uses the steady winds that blow in the region for efficient cooling" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1803775923520405697) 2024-06-20T13:04Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements "Our favourite picture taken during the #Ariane6 'wet dress-rehearsal' showing Europe's new rocket standing tall on the launch pad for the first time" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1804766396779290870) 2024-06-23T06:40Z 13.2K followers, 17.2K engagements "On Thursday the first Ariane [--] rocket to launch into space went through its last full wet dress rehearsal @EuropeSpacePort providing an exciting sneak peek of whats to come stopping just a few seconds before engine ignition and of course lift-off. https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_pre-show_wet_dress_rehearsal_complete https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_pre-show_wet_dress_rehearsal_complete" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1804766400159830102) 2024-06-23T06:40Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements "And the name Nyx Bikini The name was chosen jokingly explains The Exploration Company CEO Hlne Huby the capsule might be almost naked when it splashes down and the bikini swimwear when it was invented in the 1960s was quite innovative" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1804772352820977935) 2024-06-23T07:03Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements "Many companies work on Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 led by prime contractor and design authority @ArianeGroup" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1805242781079605367) 2024-06-24T14:13Z 13.3K followers, 18.7K engagements "The penultimate mission in our series on #Ariane6's first passengers is LIFI an experiment from @oledcomm consisting of two modules fixed to the rocket's upper stage [--] cm apart and communicating with each other not via Wi-Fi but 'Li-Fi' 💡💡🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1806611341064503345) 2024-06-28T08:51Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements "While Wi-Fi uses radio waves to send data without wires Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) does the same using light. For certain applications it could offer greater security and higher bandwidth with a lower cost and power consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=H6WQePpzyE8&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=H6WQePpzyE8&t=6s" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1806611343790789094) 2024-06-28T08:51Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements "#Ariane6: on the launch pad and ready for liftoff 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1806710093045502262) 2024-06-28T15:23Z 13.3K followers, 11.9K engagements "10 Countdown to liftoff 🚀 [--] days to #Ariane6 launch. [--] [---] tonnes is the displacement of rocket ship Canope the hybrid sail boat that transports Ariane [--] elements to Europe's Spaceport" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1806918722176553425) 2024-06-29T05:12Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements "The Ariane [--] rocket elements are manufactured in mainland Europe and then transported by Canopeto @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana. The ship is the first custom-built transporter to use sails reducing emissions and saving on fuel by up to 30%. ⛵ https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Shipping_rockets_Ariane_on_board https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Shipping_rockets_Ariane_on_board https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Shipping_rockets_Ariane_on_board" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1806918724684800206) 2024-06-29T05:12Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements "9 Countdown to liftoff 🚀 [--] days to #Ariane6 launch. 9-storey building: Ariane [--] is housed inside a 90-m-tall building that moves [---] m away from the launch pad before liftoff the building weighs [---] [---] kg and is heavier than the Tour Eiffel in Paris" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1807318879489908900) 2024-06-30T07:42Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements "4 Countdown to liftoff 🚀 [--] days to #Ariane6 launch. [--] is the maximum number of boosters Europe's new rocket can hold. On its first launch on Tuesday we are flying the two-booster version dubbed Ariane 62" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1809201444551053411) 2024-07-05T12:23Z 15K followers, 13.9K engagements "It may be wet today in French Guiana but this is no wet dress rehearsal. This evening #Ariane6 will take flight for the first time restoring Europe's autonomous access to space. Next step fuelling" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810661061604839849) 2024-07-09T13:03Z 15.3K followers, 33.3K engagements "Just passed the hour mark to predicted liftoff time for #Ariane6. Next event: weather check at [--] minutes before launch" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810736636986114548) 2024-07-09T18:03Z 15K followers, 12.1K engagements "The Vulcain engine roars to life reaching temperatures up to [----] degrees celsius. We have ignition 🔥🚀 #Ariane6 #PoweringEuropeToSpace" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810750909053555174) 2024-07-09T19:00Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "Everything is nominal #Ariane6" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810751394800095506) 2024-07-09T19:02Z 15.1K followers, 186.6K engagements "#Ariane6 first flight: Phase [--] complete 1✅🎉 From Earth to orbit the first phase consists of events [--] to [--] in this infographic. Ariane [--] has proven it can match the typical flight profile of its predecessor #Ariane5 ECA" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810756819263910317) 2024-07-09T19:24Z 15.1K followers, 58.7K engagements "🔥The #Ariane6 #Vinci engine **refires** for the first time in orbit This second boost is a short one lasting just [---] seconds and it changes the rocket's orbit from elliptical to circular at an altitude of [---] km" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810765161965183209) 2024-07-09T19:57Z 15.1K followers, 66.9K engagements "It's pretty easy to fly into an elliptical orbit but circular With this second ignition #Ariane6 can put satellites straight into Geostationary Orbit meaning they dont each need their own propulsion system to circularise their paths" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810765165606162668) 2024-07-09T19:57Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "#Ariane6 first flight: Phase [--] complete 2✅🎉 With the reignition of the upper stage & deployment of all CubeSats Ariane [--] has completed it mission. This 2nd phase of the first flight consists of events [--] to [--] in this infographic: Ariane [--] has proven its brand new upper stage reignites in orbit and can deploy multiple varied missions into orbit" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810769129227571517) 2024-07-09T20:12Z 15.1K followers, 29.7K engagements "Replay of the #Ariane6 post-launch press conference with @ESA @CNES @ArianeGroup and @Arianespace: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/07/Ariane_6_inaugural_flight_press_conference https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/07/Ariane_6_inaugural_flight_press_conference" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810836931720159341) 2024-07-10T00:42Z 15K followers, 33.7K engagements "Liftoff of Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 from @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana at 16:00 local time on [--] July (20:00 BST 21:00 CEST). 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1810838379237355545) 2024-07-10T00:48Z 15.4K followers, [----] engagements "🤩 There's no sound but we cannot get enough of this video [--] minutes of high-definition rocket liftoff. 🚀 Relive the #Ariane6 launch in glorious slow-motion and in 4K from all camera angles from the launch pad to the upper stage in flight" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1812392835133407578) 2024-07-14T07:44Z 15.1K followers, 116.9K engagements "Who knew science after school could be so cool These beautiful images of Earth were taken by @GAREF_AERO's PariSat experiment onboard #Ariane6. Their mission was to test and verify 'black body radiation' but here they capture our Pale Blue Dot😍" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1814228944234668088) 2024-07-19T09:21Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "@GAREF_AERO @esa @ESA_EO More information on the PariSat mission https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_PariSat_physics_in_space_after_school https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_PariSat_physics_in_space_after_school" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1814229139836068206) 2024-07-19T09:21Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements "ESA kicks off development of new space subscription service🚀🌠 Work has begun on the #Omega space propulsion service after the initial contract was signed in early June with a consortium consisting of @DawnAerospace @uarxspace and @Spherical_Sys🎉" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1819007385496691167) 2024-08-01T13:48Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Melissandre_L @SpaceHolgar @esa @ArianeGroup @Arianespace @RocketryKlima @MrAriane6 stay tuned. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1821131530330046908) 2024-08-07T10:29Z 15.2K followers, [--] engagements "🔥New rocket engine test 🔥 @AviationPoland and ESA have developed and are testing a variable-thrust engine ideal for landing rocket stages on Earth upper stage kickstagesor exploration missions requiring a descent onto a moon or planet" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1821539676424937692) 2024-08-08T13:31Z 15.6K followers, 28.2K engagements "Set for launch on Vega flight VV24 on [--] September at 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST (3 September 22:50 local time) from @EuropeSpacePort French Guiana. A sneak peek at the VV24 fairing that will protect @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 C satellite during its flight to space🚀 In the past days we received good news from the launch site: the Operations Readiness Meeting at @esaoperations went well and the satellite passed the propulsion https://t.co/M0dvI6WRBP A sneak peek at the VV24 fairing that will protect @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 C satellite during its flight to space🚀 In the past days we received good" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1822944799772577880) 2024-08-12T10:34Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "🚀🐳🐘🦛🦈 If ever you wondered how our rockets compare in terms of animals-to-orbit this graphic has got you covered. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/06/To_space_But_on_which_rocket https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/06/To_space_But_on_which_rocket" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1826254082681778530) 2024-08-21T13:44Z 15.6K followers, 14.9K engagements "Not a very large vacuum cleaner this is the complete top part of the next and last Vega rocket. Inside is Earth-observer #Sentinel2 C getting ready for launch. The "elephant trunk" supplies ventilation to the satellite inside" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1828449054667235598) 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, 12.3K engagements "All aboard the @esa truck. 🛻The complete upper part of the rocket was transported from its assembly hall to the Vega launch pad yesterday" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1828449059121607043) 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "The upper composite with Sentinel-2C inside was then hoisted to the top of the last Vega to fly" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1828449063848546776) 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Vega flight VV24 with @CopernicusEU/@ESA_EO Sentinel-2C onboard is set for liftoff on [--] September [----] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST (3 September 22:50 local time) from @EuropeSpacePort French Guiana" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1828449068743291331) 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "The @Arianespace press kit for the next Vega rocket flight with Earth-observer #Sentinel2 C is avabilable with flight timeline and mission information: https://newsroom.arianespace.com/vega-flight-vv24/ https://newsroom.arianespace.com/vega-flight-vv24/" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1828710754209444102) 2024-08-28T08:26Z 15.6K followers, 21.6K engagements "🎙Journalists are invited to learn more about the last flight of Europes Vega launch (known as #VV24) carrying Sentinel-2C by registering for a pre-launch media briefing this Thursday. 📺The English briefing with will be streamed on from 10:30-11:30 CEST https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefings https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefings https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefings" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1828710757816475854) 2024-08-28T08:26Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Watch the media briefing on Vega flight #VV24 launching Earth-observer #Sentinel2 to space next week. Learn more about the Sentinel constellation of satellites 🛰🌍🛰 and why this is the last Vega of its generation to fly 🚀: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/08/Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefing https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/08/Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefing" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1829125360111231233) 2024-08-29T11:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Final Vega launch with #Sentinel2 on board status update: 🟢launch readiness review: GO 🟢weather: favourable We're all set for liftoff tonight [--] September 22:50 local time from @EuropeSpacePort [--] September [----] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1830878092824367565) 2024-09-03T07:58Z 15.6K followers, 70.1K engagements "@EuropeSpacePort @ESA_EO At the top of the rocket inside the fairing is @ESA_EO/@CopernicusEU's Sentinel-2C. 🛰🛰🛰 #Sentinel2C is the third satellite in this constellation of Earth-observers that Vega will be launching into space. http://www.esa.int/sentinel http://www.esa.int/sentinel" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1830879358963126597) 2024-09-03T08:03Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "It's the final countdown for Vega. The launch chronology has started for tonight's Vega rocket launch setting up for liftoff of #VV24 on [--] September [----] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST. Watch live: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831044035609575684) 2024-09-03T18:58Z 15.6K followers, 24.1K engagements "Checks for the last Vega launch flight #VV24 with Earth-observer #Sentinel2C are complete and a new launch attempt is set same time a day later: 📅September [--] 22:50 (local time @EuropeSpacePort) 📅September [--] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST. 📺Watch live: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831230498833600651) 2024-09-04T07:19Z 15.6K followers, 25.4K engagements "It's the final countdown for Vega take two. The launch chronology has started for tonight's liftoff with @ESA_EO/@CopernicusEU Sentinel-2C satellite switched on and waiting for launch. 🚀 📅 [--] September 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST Live: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831429420420321423) 2024-09-04T20:29Z 15.6K followers, 20.2K engagements "Weather report is "green for go" for Vega #VV24 liftoff in less than four hours. A final weather check will occur [--] minutes to liftoff" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831454898740933038) 2024-09-04T22:10Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Meanwhile near Mercury @BepiColombo is set to send us back pictures from the surface. #LaunchedIt https://x.com/BepiColombo/status/1831449156482711783 Right now #BepiColombo is just [---] km from Mercury's surface. This is the closest the spacecraft has ever been and the closest it will ever get. Having just passed the planet's north pole the spacecraft will soon capture its first-ever images of the south pole. Stay tuned https://t.co/ZQKagPRJPQ https://x.com/BepiColombo/status/1831449156482711783 Right now #BepiColombo is just [---] km from Mercury's surface. This is the closest the spacecraft" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831456517096403160) 2024-09-04T22:17Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "The mobile gantry protecting Vega #VV24 on the launch pad has been rolled back revealing our rocket to the skies one step closer to liftoff. 🚀 This archive timelapse shows how the 50-m tall launch tower around Vega rolls back for launch" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831459798023557295) 2024-09-04T22:30Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "This photo shows the roll-back of the mobile gantry in progress for Vega flight #VV24" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831471136594653544) 2024-09-04T23:15Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "The last Vega rocket of its kind standing free on the launch pad ready for liftoff 🚀 📺Watch live from 02:30 BST/03:30 CEST to see the launch of Earth-observer #Sentinel2C https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831472067704983623) 2024-09-04T23:19Z 15.6K followers, 10.9K engagements "Less than four minutes to the last-ever liftoff for a Vega rocket as the launcher starts its final countdown and its avionics take over control. Watch live now: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV/(offset)/2 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV/(offset)/2" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831509532062708079) 2024-09-05T01:47Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "Liftoff of Vega flight #VV24 with Earth-observer #Sentinel2 C onboard" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831510303466528872) 2024-09-05T01:50Z 15.6K followers, 22.1K engagements "The fairing nose cone has split into two revealing #Sentinel2 C inside" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831512424958115985) 2024-09-05T01:59Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "Third stage has separated now from the AVUM fourth stage and the Sentinel-2C passenger" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831512673969725555) 2024-09-05T02:00Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "The fourth stage AVUM will now spend over an hour with Sentinel-2C to take it to its correct orbit. Its first firing lasts for over [--] minutes" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831513030292607369) 2024-09-05T02:01Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "The fourth AVUM stage for Vega has finished its first boost. #Sentinel2 C is now coasting over Earth en route to its orbit. The second AVUM boost is set for 03:44 BST/04:44 CEST that will bring Sentinel-2C to a precise drop-off point in its polar orbit" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831517581821239565) 2024-09-05T02:19Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Fly free #Sentinel2 C Separation confirmed at 03:47 BST/04:47 CEST the fourth stage of the last-ever Vega rocket sent Earth-observer Sentinel-2C on its way" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1831526604574454184) 2024-09-05T02:55Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "A great last flight for the Vega rocket last week launching #Sentinel2 C to orbit. 🚀 Meet some of #SpaceTeamEurope for Vega" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1833495954550317499) 2024-09-10T13:21Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "🚀 @ESA and @SpaceForest2 just signed a Boost contract to further develop and commercialise the Perun suborbital launch service" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1841126331557290076) 2024-10-01T14:41Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "@esa @SpaceForest2 Based in Poland @SpaceForest2 is developing a commercial single-stage European sounding rocket offering almost four minutes of microgravity. The 11-m tall rocket will be able to launch [--] kg up to [---] km offering high-quality microgravity periods of flight" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1841126859385278823) 2024-10-01T14:43Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "The upper stage sits above the main stage and under the satellites when on the launch pad. At ESTEC it is "on its side" but will be moved upright for testing soon" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1842918052826116149) 2024-10-06T13:21Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "The upper stage at ESTEC arrived earlier this week after leaving its test stand @DLR_en in Lampoldshausen " [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1842918057322426514) 2024-10-06T13:21Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "🔥 We love rocket engines Here's @SpaceForest2's SF-1000 engine being tested in Poland . The engine runs on nitrous oxide and modified paraffin commonly used as candle wax and powers the company's Perun rocket 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1843654642988699700) 2024-10-08T14:08Z 15.5K followers, 14.7K engagements "🚀Liftoff date for the next Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 : 📆3 December [----] 18:20 local time @EuropeSpacePort (21:20 GMT 22:20 CET) 🛰 Launching Earth observer #Sentinel1 C 🚀#VV25: On Dec. [--] #Arianespace will launch #Sentinel1C 🛰@CopernicusEU for @EU_Commission & @esa ➡ Providing crucial environmental data 🌍& carrying out our commitment of guaranteeing #Europes access to #space ➡ Marking the return-to-flight of Vega C https://t.co/XaWZaEmwvW https://t.co/wgUB2PDVUO 🚀#VV25: On Dec. [--] #Arianespace will launch #Sentinel1C 🛰@CopernicusEU for @EU_Commission & @esa ➡ Providing crucial" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1844344340363214957) 2024-10-10T11:48Z 15.5K followers, 15.8K engagements "The [---] m long rocket motor Zefiro-40 left its storage building by truck" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1846185316014555166) 2024-10-15T13:44Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements ". to arrive at the Vega-C launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1846185320766751106) 2024-10-15T13:44Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "Vega development started in the 1990s over [--] years ago officially becoming an @ESA programme in 1998" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1846218705476129186) 2024-10-15T15:56Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Its start was not easy in the 1990s there was no market for smaller satellites but @ESA with support from Belgium Italy France The Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland decided to go ahead" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1846218709662065097) 2024-10-15T15:56Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending the next Vega-C launch on [--] December with @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. 📅Deadline [--] October 12:00 CEST: https://esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Call_for_interest_Copernicus_Sentinel-1C_launch_media_event_at_Europe_s_Spaceport https://esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Call_for_interest_Copernicus_Sentinel-1C_launch_media_event_at_Europe_s_Spaceport" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1846919712996761993) 2024-10-17T14:22Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "The next Vega-C rocket flight set to launch Earth-observer #Sentinel1 C to space is taking shape on the launch pad with the third stage stacked. Next: the AVUM+ fourth stage. Follow its progress in images: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad After the P120C and the Zefiro-40 comes. Zefiro-9. The third stage for the Vega-C flight that will rocket #Sentinel1-C to orbit in December has arrived at the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort. https://t.co/0R8PJHVumF https://t.co/mUEPahLY8d" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1848732504561222041) 2024-10-22T14:25Z 17.1K followers, 29.2K engagements "A look at the environmental sustainability of space transportation: 🛰🌍🚀 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Environmentally_sustainable_space_transport https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Environmentally_sustainable_space_transport" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1849436925632938279) 2024-10-24T13:04Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements "Less than a week left to apply for this year's Student Aerospace Challenge. Teams of up to five university students are challenged to write a report on all types of themes from mission design to market analysis from medicine to propulsion. More info: https://www.esa.int/Education/Engagement/Student_Aerospace_Challenge_2024-2025 https://www.esa.int/Education/Engagement/Student_Aerospace_Challenge_2024-2025" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1849810748131758430) 2024-10-25T13:50Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements "The reusable rocket stage demonstrator Themis is being built up with all the components to launch land vertically and be reused for another mission" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854145294818029782) 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, 49.1K engagements "Themis comes in at [--] m tall and its stainless-steel tank for the rockets liquid methane and oxygen propellant have been cleaned since last use on a test stand in Vernon France. The tanks are now closed and ready for fitting to the rocket's main structures" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854145298370613320) 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "The engine called Prometheus was installed on the launchers engine bay followed by the thrust vector actuation system that allows the engines forces to be directed and controlled" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854145301587575249) 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Prometheus is a reusable engine that can vary its thrust from 30% to short bursts of 110% thrust needed for liftoff and landing" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854145305077248287) 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "The assembly hall is @ArianeGroup's site in Les Mureaux the same place that Ariane [--] main stages were assembled" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854145307832979779) 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "Meanwhile in Sweden the launch pad for Themis is being developed at @SSCspace's Esrange facility" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854145311326810127) 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "The Vega-C rocket received its fourth and final stage in the build-up to launch #Sentinel1-C last month 🚚🏗🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854914050989138179) 2024-11-08T15:49Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "See the process of assembling all four stages for this Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 on the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in pictures here: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854914055657734215) 2024-11-08T15:49Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements "The Vega-C rocket received its fourth and final stage in the build-up to launch #Sentinel1-C 🚚🏗🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854917321858466068) 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "See the process of all four stages being stacked to create the Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 on the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in pictures: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854917326069469472) 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "The Vega-C rocket received its fourth and final stage in the build-up to launch #Sentinel1-C 🚚🏗🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854917492478550163) 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "See the process of all four stages being stacked to create the Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 on the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in pictures: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1854917533796536622) 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "🙂Looking forward to launch the Smile mission next year ☀💨🛰🌍 Meet our Smile mission 👇 https://t.co/MEVzK6eH1w 🎥ESA/Lightcurve Films https://t.co/eicrbng8I4 ☀💨🛰🌍 Meet our Smile mission 👇 https://t.co/MEVzK6eH1w 🎥ESA/Lightcurve Films https://t.co/eicrbng8I4" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1856723945384284571) 2024-11-13T15:40Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "ESA is extending its commitment to the new generation of commercial-led European launch services through its Boost programme awarding contract extensions with four companies towards deployment of their launch services. 👇" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1858835907094220899) 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.6K followers, 23.2K engagements "@rfa_space have started conducting integrated tests on their RFA One at the @SaxaVord_Space launch facility. The Boost co-funding will help Rocket Factory Augsburg prepare the next first stage flight hardware for more testing and launch" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1858835911217229857) 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements "@isaraerospace is conducting integrated testing of the stages of its Spectrum launch vehicle. The funds of this Boost contract will be focused on completing their test campaign preparing the rockets first test flight @andoyaspace launch facility. Moreover ESA's support will follow steps preparing the second test flight of the Spectrum rocket and scaling-up of production facilities at the companys new headquarters in Vaterstetten Germany" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1858835914086023311) 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "ESA's Boost contract with @orbexspace will allow the company to proceed towards the first demonstration flight of its Prime launch vehicle. It covers important steps towards qualifying carbon-fibre fuel tanks and the integrated testing and launch of Prime" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1858835917034647995) 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements "@isaraerospace is conducting integrated testing of the stages of its Spectrum launch vehicle. The funds of this Boost contract will be focused on completing their test campaign preparing the rockets first test flight @andoyaspace launch facility. Moreover ESA's support will follow steps preparing the second test flight of the Spectrum rocket and scaling-up of production facilities at the companys new headquarters in Vaterstetten Germany" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1858838351542899159) 2024-11-19T11:42Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "@rfa_space @SaxaVord_Space @isaraerospace @AndoyaSpace ESA's Boost contract with @orbexspace will allow the company to proceed towards the first demonstration flight of its Prime launch vehicle. It covers important steps towards qualifying carbon-fibre fuel tanks and the integrated testing and launch of Prime" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1858838524910321813) 2024-11-19T11:43Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "Yesterday @esa and @ArianeGroup signed two contract riders to continue demonstrations of the reuseable Prometheus engine and Themis rocket stage demonstrator: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Future_space_transportation/Signing_secures_next_steps_for_reusable_rocket_demonstrations https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Future_space_transportation/Signing_secures_next_steps_for_reusable_rocket_demonstrations" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1859508917492998176) 2024-11-21T08:07Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "Like to cook with rocket We do😍 @SpacePeps reuses metals from the manufacture of #Ariane [--] rockets and sustainably sourced wood from the forests of French Guiana to create personalisable culinary knives" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1859934872275419455) 2024-11-22T12:20Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements "@ESA_EO @CopernicusEU @esaoperations @esa @Arianespace @defis_eu @Avio_Group @Thales_Alenia_S See you later #Sentinel-1C now cosy and acclimatised inside our beautiful rocket fairing. Like a cherry on a cake this "upper composite" will be transported to the top of Vega-C ready for launch next week See how Vega-C is being built up: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_for_Sentinel-1C https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_for_Sentinel-1C" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1861066511454007571) 2024-11-25T15:16Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements "🤝Taking over until space the next step will be putting Sentinel-1C on top of our Vega-C rocket for launch next week. 📅Flight #VV25 [--] December [----] 18:20 local time @EuropeSpacePort (21:20 GMT 22:20 CET)🚀 Last photos of the @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C satellite The spacecraft is now fully encapsulated in the Vega-C #VV25 fairing- which means that launch is quickly approaching🚀 Launch is scheduled on [--] December; follow @ESA_transport and @esaoperations for more updates. 📸ESA https://t.co/aVHc6j8g8L Last photos of the @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C satellite The spacecraft is now fully" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1861068154706747517) 2024-11-25T15:23Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements "🔊Sound on (but it's very loud). Hear the mighty power of @Avio_Group's Zefiro-40 during testing. In just two minutes this rocket stage burns through [-----] kg of propellant See it fire into action live next week on the Vega-C launch as it helps propel #Sentinel1-C to orbit 🚀" [X Link](https://x.com/ESA_transport/status/1861424131322826968) 2024-11-26T14:57Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Top assets mentioned Rocket Companies, Inc. (RKT) Waves (WAVES) Sentinel (P2P) ORBIT (GRIFT) TRENCHES (TRENCHES) BEAM (BEAM) Celsius (CEL) Oxygen (OXY) BLAST (BLAST)
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"Heres a pretty spectacular photo of todays #P120C test at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana #Ariane6 #VegaC #RocketsInTheJungle"
X Link 2018-07-16T18:23Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"New #drone footage has just been released showing the construction of @Ariane6's future launch site as of February [----] 🏗 Ariane 6's maiden launch is scheduled for [----] taking off from its specially-made launch complex as seen below at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana"
X Link 2019-02-26T16:15Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"#Soyuz launcher #VS22 scheduled for take-off on April [--] is almost ready to launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana 🛰🌴Read more about the launch of #O3b satellites here: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-vs22/ http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-vs22/"
X Link 2019-04-02T15:16Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Timelapse magic: that's the #Ariane5 for #VA260 @ESA_Juice being moved from rocket assembly to final assembly where this awesome spacecraft will be loaded for an epic Journey to Jupiter Launch scheduled for [--] April from @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana"
X Link 2023-03-27T12:35Z 15.5K followers, 68K engagements
"Ariane [--] will launch Argonaut in a direct flight to the Moon. 🚀🌑 Argonaut is #Europes autonomous lunar lander. Designed to be versatile it could bring cargo a rover production facilities or even a power station to the Moon: #InternationalMoonDay"
X Link 2023-07-20T17:54Z 11.9K followers, 55.8K engagements
"Teams preparing Ariane [--] for its inaugural flight successfully completed for the first time a launcher preparation and countdown sequence on [--] July at Europes Spaceport in Kourou French Guiana https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane_6_launch_system_tests_progressing_well https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane_6_launch_system_tests_progressing_well"
X Link 2023-07-25T08:10Z 15.2K followers, 102.4K engagements
"The final #Ariane5 launch: from integration to liftoff in under five minutes. 🚀 #VA261 #timelapse Full video:"
X Link 2023-08-05T16:35Z 11.9K followers, 51.8K engagements
"Ariane 6's short hot firing test at Europes Spaceport in Kourou French Guiana was postponed on [--] August [----] due to a technical issue affecting the control bench governing the critical fluidic operations (the launchers filling and the automated countdown). Specialists are working on a solution. The next attempt is planned for [--] September 2023"
X Link 2023-08-30T08:00Z 12K followers, 87.5K engagements
"✅Another hot-fire test complete. 🔥 Trial by fire for #Ariane6 upper stage with Vinci engine and Auxiliary Power unit firing @DLR_de site in Lampoldshausen Germany:"
X Link 2023-09-01T21:45Z 11.9K followers, 47K engagements
"🔴Live now #Ariane6 media briefing on progress achieved and upcoming steps for Ariane [--] tests being conducted at Spaceport Europe in Kourou French Guiana and at the German aerospace agency @DLR_ens technical centre in Lampoldshausen Germany:"
X Link 2023-09-04T10:06Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Fuelled-up dress rehearsal for #Ariane6 with ignition of Vulcain [---] engine 🔥:"
X Link 2023-09-06T07:57Z 11.3K followers, 43.9K engagements
"Straight to ignition Teams from @esa @CNES and @ArianeGroup worked many hours to get #Ariane6 fuelled up to start the Vulcain [---] engine but we cut straight to ignition for instant satisfaction. 🔥👏 Full video and download:"
X Link 2023-09-06T08:48Z 12.3K followers, 56.4K engagements
"Power of [--] Three firings of three #European rocket engines in three different countries this month. 🚀🧵 [--] @ArianeGroup's restartable Vinci engine was tested @DLR_de and fired for [--] minutes in two ignitions:"
X Link 2023-09-13T14:28Z 12K followers, 47K engagements
"2 The Vulcain [---] main engine for #Ariane6 fired for four seconds @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana operated by @CNES - the next test will see it fire for a full [--] minutes"
X Link 2023-09-13T14:28Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"Helping the #European private sector to develop technological building blocks is an important focus of @esa's Future Launchers Preparatory Programme:"
X Link 2023-09-19T11:10Z 11.3K followers, 25.6K engagements
"One project is helping partners develop proof-of-concept in-space transportation vehicles. These vehicles will be able to dock with spacecraft and cargo take payloads carry them to their final orbits and refuel themselves in orbit such as @D_Orbit:"
X Link 2023-09-19T11:10Z 11.3K followers, [---] engagements
"#Ariane6 Launcher Task Force update📄 - latest report on progress towards inaugural launch from @esa @ArianeGroup @Arianespace @CNES: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_joint_update_report_21_September_2023 Ariane [--] task force update: great data and results from the hot-fire September tests for #Ariane6 both in French Guiana and Germany. However an anomaly was detected in the thrust control vector hydraulics when preparing for the next test and the long-duration hot firing test"
X Link 2023-09-21T15:29Z 15.6K followers, 34.7K engagements
"🚀Next launch: Vega flight #VV23 leaving @EuropeSpacePort on October [--] at 22:36 local time October [--] 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST). Onboard are main passengers: 🛰 Theos-2: @GISTDA Earth observation 🛰 Triton: @TASA_Taiwan ocean wind monitor And more: 🛰 ANSER: @intaespana fuel-free formation flyers 🛰ESTCube-2: @unitartu plasma-brake demonstrator 🛰N3SS: @cnes radio jammer detector 🛰PRETTY: @tugraz measuring ice and sea height 🛰Proba-V companion cubesat: @esa vegetation monitor 🛰CSC-1 & 2: @EU4Space tech-demonstrator"
X Link 2023-10-05T13:04Z 12.3K followers, 36.9K engagements
"Launching into space on Vega flight #VV23 is the ANSER mission Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research. It consists of three fuel-free cubesats that will fly in formation skipping of our atmosphere. The #cubesats will use wing-like flaps to keep formation and are named after the Latin name for the wild goose:"
X Link 2023-10-06T09:02Z 12.3K followers, [----] engagements
"ESTCube-2 from Estonia is set to launch on Vega flight #VV23 🚀 into space tonight to demonstrate plasma-braking using a 50-m long interweaved aluminium line made up of wires just [----] mm thick. As it drags through the ionosphere it will pull the satellite back to Earth https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Vega_s_ESTCube-2_tether_to_the_future https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Vega_s_ESTCube-2_tether_to_the_future"
X Link 2023-10-06T12:58Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Ready for launch. 🚀 The Vega rocket's mobile gantry has been rolled away (left) and Vega #VV23 is ready for liftoff (right) at 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST) today"
X Link 2023-10-07T01:13Z 11.9K followers, 11.6K engagements
"🟢 Weather is for GO for launch of Vega rocket #VV23 scheduled for 🚀 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST) today. 📺 Watch the liftoff live launch transmission has started:"
X Link 2023-10-07T01:24Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Green all round Vega the @EuropeSpacePort launch pad and the #VV23 passengers are ready for launch 🚀"
X Link 2023-10-07T01:26Z 11.9K followers, [---] engagements
"New launch date for Vega #VV23 October [--] 22:36 local time October [--] 02:36 BST 03:36 CEST 🚀"
X Link 2023-10-08T16:57Z 11.4K followers, 152.8K engagements
"Watch live : Vega flight #VV23 set to launch [--] missions into space. 📺Live transmission starts at 02:15 BST (03:15 CEST) today: 🚀Liftoff set for [--] October at 22:36 local @EuropeSpacePort time [--] October 02:36 BST (03:36 CEST)"
X Link 2023-10-09T00:35Z 11.9K followers, 122K engagements
"The Vega #VV23 upper stage is now flying around Earth on target. The upper stage will ignite for a second time at liftoff+51 minutes so 03:27 BST (04:27 CEST) to release the main passengers Earth-observers Theos-2 and Triton into their orbits. Graphic from @Arianespace:"
X Link 2023-10-09T02:15Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Arianespace The upper stage has fired for [---] minutes and the two satellites Triton and Theos-2 have been released simultaneously into their sun-synchronous orbits 👏"
X Link 2023-10-09T02:33Z 12K followers, [---] engagements
"@Arianespace The Vega #VV23 upper stage's third boost is now complete there are still [--] more missions to deliver into orbit. These smaller satellites will be released at liftoff+103 minutes so at 04:19 BST (05:19 CEST) The upper stage is currently flying at [---] km above Earth"
X Link 2023-10-09T02:45Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Vega flies to bring Earth-observing Theos-2 and Triton satellites to space and more. 🚀🛰🌎 #VV23 👉"
X Link 2023-10-09T05:20Z 11.3K followers, 15.5K engagements
"🚀👏 Last Saturday @PLD_Space launched its #MIURA1 rocket from Spain"
X Link 2023-10-10T15:30Z 11.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Space Team #Europe: these are the people behind Vega's latest launch #VV23: passionate about flying 🛫🚀 from an early age Calogero Savoca from Italy is Assistant Production Group Manager at Europropulsion @Avio_Group and @ArianeGroup"
X Link 2023-10-12T14:50Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"#SpaceTeamEurope Vega edition: Riccardo Guglielmini loves seeing Vega on the launchpad 🚀 and provided technical support during the mechanical and pyrotechnic integration operations for the #VV23 campaign @Avio_Group"
X Link 2023-10-16T15:03Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"💥".when working with liquid oxygen if things go wrong they go wrong very quickly" It's crunch time for @esa's Phoebus project that is looking to carbon fibre-reinforced plastic for the next generation of rocket fuel tanks. Light-weight strong leak-tight and non-reactive last week a key element of the Phoebus project passed its test-readiness review and was given the go-ahead to proceed for testing where a 2-m-diameter model oxygen tank will be tested as if it were really flying"
X Link 2023-10-24T14:00Z 11.4K followers, 26.4K engagements
"Nighttime rehearsal for Ariane [--] towards first flight 🚀 Yesterday a team of @CNES @ESA @Arianespace and @ArianeGroup personnel at @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou French Guiana completed a full-scale wet rehearsal of the new #Ariane [--] rocket that was fuelled and then drained of its fuel. The test lasted over [--] hours with three teams working in shifts of [--] hours each. The test concentrated on system robustness and how well Ariane [--] and the teams handle situations at the edge of the operational parameters. This time the operations were performed at night to test operations in cooler ambient"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:12Z 11.3K followers, 91.4K engagements
"Europe's LOX-methane reusable rocket engine project made notable summer-autumn progress with 30-second burn reignition #Prometheus 🚀 update:"
X Link 2023-10-26T12:35Z 11.4K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Yesterday we signed a small contract extension with @isaraerospace who are gearing up to launch from Norway's Andya spaceport 🚀. A key element of this is the development and evaluation of an automated flight termination system building on the partnership established between Isar Aerospace and Andya Spaceport. Have a look at last week's Isar Aeropsace engine test for its Spectrum rocket 🔥 :"
X Link 2023-11-02T10:28Z 11.4K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Shipping rockets: #Ariane6 on board. 🚢🚀 The wonderful hybrid-wind-powered vessel Canope arrived in Pariacabo harbor in French Guiana today for @EuropeSpacePort"
X Link 2023-11-03T15:37Z 12.3K followers, 28.4K engagements
"A test model for a next-generation rocket fuel tank made of carbon-fibre Phoebus is passing tests and making progress: 1Helium test: the tank has shown itself to be leak-tight to room-temperature helium using the same criteria as for existing metallic rocket tanks ✅ 2Cryogenic pressure test - using liquid nitrogen the tank has sustained at cryogenic temperatures pressures above those expected to be seen in operation. ✅ Next up: 3Liquid oxygen test - to see how Phoebus holds up with this reactive liquid. Since this can be dangerous if things do go wrong Phoebus will be moved to Unterl Germany"
X Link 2023-11-10T16:22Z 11.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Our director of space transportation visited @orbexspace in Denmark last week an Orbex facility for 🚀 propulsion testing software avionics and business services. 🤝 @esa has partnered with several innovators in #European space transportation:"
X Link 2023-11-13T11:58Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"📺 Watch live: #Ariane6 launch rehearsal with 8-minute core stage engine firing. 📅 [--] November 20:10 GMT (21:10 CET 17:10 local time) on #ESAWebTV: Learn more about the test: Here's the Vulcain [---] engine firing last time 🔥👀"
X Link 2023-11-20T16:35Z 11.9K followers, 277.2K engagements
"In just [--] minutes on Thursday our #Ariane6 test model main stage is set to burn through [---] [---] kg of super-cooled 🥶 liquid oxygen (180C) and liquid hydrogen (252C): heating its Vulcain [---] engine up to 3000C 📺More info and how to watch live :"
X Link 2023-11-21T20:36Z 11.9K followers, 23.2K engagements
"Join us tomorrow evening for a live test of #Europe's newest most powerful rocket: #Ariane6 hot fire 🔥 For [--] minutes the core stage's Vulcain [---] engine will fire - the time it would take to launch. Watch live on #ESAWebTV as we burn liquid hydrogen and oxygen and reach temperatures up to 3000C to prepare the powerful engine core stage and launch pad for Ariane 6's first flight:"
X Link 2023-11-22T13:42Z 11.9K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Overnight @CNES @ArianeGroup and @esa personnel have been preparing the #Ariane6 helium pressurisation system for tanking. Weather is favourable for today's hot-fire test 🔥 Watch live from 21:10 CET (20:10 GMT 17:10 local time @EuropeSpacePort):"
X Link 2023-11-23T06:54Z 11.9K followers, 132.3K engagements
"Things are going smoothly over @EuropeSpacePort in preparation for tonight's core stage hot-fire test of #Ariane6. 🔥 The liquid oxygen turbo pump chill-down has begun. The turbo pumps push the super-chilled liquid propellants to the Vulcain [---] engine the hydrogen turbo pump alone produces more power than a high-speed TGV train 🚄🚀"
X Link 2023-11-23T18:24Z 11.9K followers, 11.4K engagements
"📺 Watch live: #Ariane6 launch rehearsal with 8-minute core stage engine firing. 🔥 Things are progressing smoothly and we are [--] minutes ahead of schedule. 📺Livestream starts today on #ESAWebTV at 20:40 CET (19:40 GMT 16:40 local) 🔥 Engine ignition scheduled for 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT 17:00 local) Learn more about the test: What to expect 👇"
X Link 2023-11-23T18:37Z 11.9K followers, 142.1K engagements
"@CNES @ArianeGroup @esa @EuropeSpacePort New times we are [--] minutes ahead of schedule: 📺Livestream starting at 20:40 CET(19:40 GMT 16:40 local) 🔥 Vulcain [---] engine ignition now scheduled at 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT 17:00 local)"
X Link 2023-11-23T18:45Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"New times we are [--] minutes ahead of schedule: 📺Livestream starting at 20:40 CET(19:40 GMT 16:40 local) 🔥 Vulcain [---] engine ignition now scheduled at 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT 17:00 local)"
X Link 2023-11-23T18:46Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"10 minutes to ignition of the Vulcain [---] engine for #Ariane6 in today's test of the complete core stage. 🟩 All signs are green and the Director of Operations and the Launch Campaign Operations Manager have met and confirmed we are GO for the ignition of the engine. 🔥 Live:"
X Link 2023-11-23T19:52Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"5 minutes to #Ariane6 main engine ignition in today's hot-fire test. 🔥 The Vulcain [---] engine will fire for eight minutes and burn through [---] [---] kg of propellant. 📺Watch live:"
X Link 2023-11-23T19:55Z 11.9K followers, 10.4K engagements
"We are paused at -02:42 before engine ignition Ariane [--] is in safe waiting mode. The #Ariane6 launcher itself has taken control as planned in the countdown and its software takes decisions for ignition engine control and safety. We are waiting for a new time for ignition"
X Link 2023-11-23T20:08Z 11.9K followers, 63.8K engagements
"We are back and the countdown clock is again at -05:00 after a small anomaly in the transient threshold pressure which was slightly different from our predictions. This is why we test #Ariane6 Watch live for engine ignition:"
X Link 2023-11-23T20:42Z 11.9K followers, [----] engagements
"We have ignition of the #Ariane6 main stage in today's test as water vapour extends from its exhaust trenches. The engine is now at full throttle for the next eight minutes"
X Link 2023-11-23T20:46Z 11.9K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Main engine cut off for #Ariane6 on today's test. 🔥👏 In less than eight minutes [---] [---] kg of liquid hydrogen and oxygen were burnt if this was a real launch Ariane [--] would now be in orbit"
X Link 2023-11-23T20:56Z 12K followers, 115K engagements
"Replay of the #Ariane6 core stage hot-fire test🔥. Watch the thruster nozzle moving. 👀 During a launch this movement would compensate for aerodynamic forces pushing Ariane [--] off course. Small changes made automatically by the rockets avionics will keep Ariane [--] heading to the stars 🚀. Like balancing a pencil vertically on your finger small rapid movements are key to keeping upright ✏"
X Link 2023-11-23T22:16Z 11.9K followers, 71K engagements
"Ariane [--] was not supposed to have pierced the clouds yesterday but it brought them down to Earth. ☁🌎 Impressive drone views from the #Ariane6 main stage test. As the stage uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as propellant the clouds you see are H20: water vapour ☁🚀"
X Link 2023-11-24T11:30Z 11.9K followers, 46.4K engagements
"The countdown to last week's #Ariane6 hot-fire test started [--] hours before engine ignition for seven minutes of fire. 🔥 ☁ This #timelapse condenses operations @EuropeSpacePort into just [--] minutes 🤩 ☁ We will be broadcasting next steps for Europe's rocket on #ESAWebTV today at 09:00 CET (08:00 GMT):"
X Link 2023-11-30T06:15Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"Earlier this year we tested the #Themis landing legs built by Almatech in Swizterland . Like Swiss clockwork they deployed perfectly relying only on gravity to fall into position"
X Link 2023-12-06T16:30Z 12K followers, [---] engagements
"Two #Themis models are being worked on at @ArianeGroup's site in Vernon France : Themis [--] Ground (T1G left) and the first flight model Themis [--] Hop (T1H right). Hop tests with T1H are planned next year from @SSCspace's Esrange launch site in Sweden "
X Link 2023-12-06T16:30Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"The Orbex Prime rocket measures [--] m high and is powered by a cluster of 3D-printed engines that run on liquid oxygen and bio-propane a clean-burning renewable fuel. Prime is also being designed to be reusable in the future"
X Link 2023-12-13T12:20Z 12K followers, [---] engagements
"Headquartered in Scotland UK with a site in Denmark @orbexspace is a #European company developing the Prime two-stage rocket that will launch small satellites up to [---] kg to low Earth orbits"
X Link 2023-12-13T12:21Z 12K followers, [---] engagements
"If rocket building were a game #Europes heavy-lift launcher Ariane [--] passed a final test on hard mode. Last Friday @CNES @ArianeGroup and @esa completed the last of the super-cool propellant-loading tests for #Ariane6 including a four-second ignition of the main stage 🧵"
X Link 2023-12-19T14:18Z 11.5K followers, 47.3K engagements
"The combined test loading called CTLO3 was the last in a series of rehearsals on the full-scale rocket to practice launch operations for #Ariane6 and the final one before its first flight next year. It included tests of "ultimate contingency modes""
X Link 2023-12-19T14:18Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"The test moved the Vulcain [---] engine nozzle to simulate extreme ignition conditions and degraded modes of liftoff. This video from a previous test shows how the nozzle can move to keep Ariane [--] on course as it heads up to space. 🚀"
X Link 2023-12-19T14:18Z 12K followers, [----] engagements
"The Phoebus programme is on a roll. Phoebus aims to produce upper stage tanks and structures in carbon fibre and so far it is acing its tests. 💪 Helium leak test ✅ Cryogenic pressure test ✅ Liquid oxygen test✅ Details and update:"
X Link 2023-12-20T14:43Z 12K followers, 19.7K engagements
"What do you get if you cross #GreenHydrogen with the location of Europe's Spaceport French Guiana and . iguanas #Hyguane 🚀🦎🔋💚"
X Link 2023-12-21T11:27Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"For [--] years ESA has been shaping the future in space. That continues as brand-new rockets are set to take flight: some reusable carbon-neutral hybrid little large crewed uncrewed to Earth orbit and to deep space the journey continues. #HappyNewYear🥳 #HappyNewSpace🚀"
X Link 2024-01-01T09:00Z 12K followers, 31K engagements
"321. cryo arms disengage The #Ariane6 fuelling arms connecting the test model were retracted yesterday @EuropeSpacePort. This marks the start of dismantling operations to make way for first launch🤗🚀 More in this month's Ariane [--] task force update: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_joint_update_report_31_January_2024 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_joint_update_report_31_January_2024"
X Link 2024-01-31T11:11Z 15.7K followers, 43.4K engagements
"We have two new calls for ideas open for reusable rocket boosters and engines. Read up and apply : Technologies for high-thrust reusable space transportation: 🚀 New concepts for reusable booster or first stages:"
X Link 2024-02-09T07:19Z 12.4K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Have a product or technology that needs to be qualified in space 🛰 With the Flight Ticket Initiative @EU_Commission and @esa offer opportunities to fly technologies on a satellite mission. Apply now for a sponsored opportunity to fly your project:"
X Link 2024-02-16T09:08Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@esa @PLD_Space @esa_es Miura [--] is the next step in the @PLD_Space launch services portfolio for customers who want to launch small satellites into orbit. The rocket will be [--] m in diameter and have two stages to propel payloads to orbit launching from @EuropeSpacePort"
X Link 2024-02-19T10:53Z 12.4K followers, [----] engagements
"In October [----] PLD Space inaugurated their suborbital launch vehicle Miura [--] from the El Arenosillo Test Centre in Spain . 🚀Miura [--] is designed to send up to [---] kg up to heights of [---] km above Earth offering short periods of weightlessness for researchers and other customers"
X Link 2024-02-19T10:54Z 12.4K followers, [---] engagements
"A rocket ship docks. Yesterday the hybrid sailship Canope arrived @EuropeSpacePort with the upper and main stage for the first flight of Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 ⛵🚀 The four masts are for the sails that are furled while at harbour"
X Link 2024-02-22T12:31Z 12.5K followers, 42.1K engagements
"#Ariane6 arrived on Wednesday at the port of Pariacabo in Kourou French Guiana Europes Spaceport via the impressive custom-built Canope ship. They travelled for [--] days covering [----] km from Bremen in Germany to Le Havre in France. But the journey is just beginning"
X Link 2024-02-23T09:33Z 15.4K followers, 31K engagements
"Now that's a space ship. From dream to reality from Germany to France to French Guiana. #Ariane6 is on its way 💭✨🔧🚢🌴🚀🥳"
X Link 2024-02-23T15:01Z 12.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Get the interview via @spaceinfoclub here: Have you ever heard about @esas Space Rider program We had the pleasure to ask @DanteGalli76 - Space Rider Programme Manager some questions insights and some tales about his path towards being involved in this amazing and futuristic program. https://t.co/sJFlbU1ZiE https://t.co/boiaX4FXZ3 Have you ever heard about @esas Space Rider program We had the pleasure to ask @DanteGalli76 - Space Rider Programme Manager some questions insights and some tales about his path towards being involved in this amazing and futuristic program. https://t.co/sJFlbU1ZiE"
X Link 2024-02-26T08:00Z 12.5K followers, 26.5K engagements
"#Ariane6 booster ready and on the move. Here seen rumbling along at a slower pace once alight this booster will help propel #Europe's new rocket Ariane [--] to supersonic speeds in just [--] seconds 🚀"
X Link 2024-03-20T09:27Z 12.6K followers, 54.8K engagements
"The P120C solid rocket boosters [----] m long and [---] m in diameter are #Europes solid propulsion workhorse. Filled with about [---] tonnes of solid propellant they provide around [----] kN of maximum thrust"
X Link 2024-03-20T09:27Z 12.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The first booster is now in a storage building awaiting transfer to the launch pad. The second booster is already being worked on having recently arrived from the propulsion integration building a little further away at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana"
X Link 2024-03-20T09:27Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"#Ariane [--] upper and core stage: connected 🪢 Together they form the central part of Europe's new rocket Ariane [--] that is set to fly for the first time this summer"
X Link 2024-03-21T16:34Z 12.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@EmmanuelMacron @CNES @EuropeSpacePort @Arianespace @ArianeGroup The President addressed the teams working on Ariane [--] in the launcher assembly building in the background is the rocket's upper stage and core stage that will soar into space soon"
X Link 2024-03-27T09:46Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@EmmanuelMacron @CNES @EuropeSpacePort @Arianespace @ArianeGroup Also present was Toni Tolker-Nielsen ESAs Director of Space Transportation Philippe Baptiste CEO of Frances space agency @CNES Martin Sion CEO of @ArianeGroup Stphane Isral CEO of @Arianespace and the mayor of Kourou French Guiana @ville_de_Kourou"
X Link 2024-03-27T09:55Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"🛰🛰 ☀ 🕵♀🕵♂ #Ariane6 launches: @NASA's CURIE a first-of-a-kind radio detective. 🔎 🚀 This #CubeSat duo will use interferometry to monitor radio waves from the Sun and pinpoint the origin of radio sources in the Universe 🌌 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_NASA_s_CURIE_first-of-a-kind_radio_detective https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_NASA_s_CURIE_first-of-a-kind_radio_detective"
X Link 2024-04-02T16:09Z 12.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Ariane [--] elements are made in Europe and shipped across the Atlantic on the hybrid sailboat Canope as complete stages"
X Link 2024-04-03T15:03Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"The elements arrive at the harbour of Kourou French Guiana where they are offloaded and moved by truck for integration in their assembly halls"
X Link 2024-04-03T15:03Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"Click Is the sound we imagine when connecting two rocket stages. Timelapse of the upper and core stage of Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 being assembled on [--] March"
X Link 2024-04-21T08:18Z 15.5K followers, 17.6K engagements
"🚀#Ariane6 has wings. The first Ariane [--] rocket to take flight is being pieced together at @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou French Guiana. Its two boosters have now been connected to and are supporting the rocket's central core. One step closer to launch"
X Link 2024-04-30T16:55Z 15K followers, 33.7K engagements
"Wait for it. the cubesat's defining visual feature is it's elephant trunk: a 0.5-meter spring-like antenna that will take up very little space until deployed. Once in orbit it will spring open to perform observations usually the domain of larger missions providing a powerful eye on Earth despite its portable travel size"
X Link 2024-05-08T08:58Z 12.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The @la_UPC 3Cat-4 mission team will be stationed in their control room at the Barcelona Operations Centre in Spain for launch from where they will command the satellite and receive its telemetry and scientific data via their Montsec Ground Station located in the Pyrenees Spain"
X Link 2024-05-08T08:58Z 12.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Two boosters and a central core make up the first #Ariane6. Three days of operations to assemble Europe's next rocket shown in less than three minutes"
X Link 2024-05-13T11:34Z 13K followers, 55.3K engagements
"Ariane [--] is built in countries across Europe and transported to @EuropeSpacePort via the partially wind-powered Canope. ⛵ The ship is the first custom-built transporter to use sails reducing emissions and saving on fuel by up to 30%"
X Link 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [----] engagements
"The Ariane [--] launch pad was built by @CNES to lessen the site's carbon footprint and preserve local natural resources. The location was chosen to avoid interfering with protected species"
X Link 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"💧Tonnes of water are pumped out from the Ariane [--] water deluge system during a launch to suppress the noise of the engines as they roar to space. This water is now carefully recuperated during every launch and stored for the next. ♻"
X Link 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"To make the rocket fuel the HYGUANE (HYdrogne GUyanais A Neutralit Environnementale) project will enable solar-powered electrolysis of water which reduces the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in creating hydrogen over current manufacturing by a factor of five"
X Link 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"The Ariane [--] upper stage can be stopped and restarted so a final ignition can deorbit the upper stage to burn up in Earth's atmosphere or reorbit it into a graveyard orbit out of the way of potential collision with operational satellites or space debris"
X Link 2024-05-15T14:37Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"#Ariane6 launches Replicator 3D printing in open space With 'Replicator' Orbital Matter aims to print a [--] cm-long beam while at an altitude of [---] km out of polymer material"
X Link 2024-05-16T15:10Z 13K followers, [----] engagements
"And yes the Replicator name is an homage to manufacturing methods in science fiction: from @StarTrek's Replicators that could synthesise meals on demand to @stargatecommand's Replicators capable of reproducing themselves indefinitely. Read more: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_Replicator_3D_printing_in_open_space https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_Replicator_3D_printing_in_open_space"
X Link 2024-05-16T15:10Z 13K followers, [---] engagements
"Faces of #Ariane6: Franck is responsible for the fuel connection systems for Europe's next rocket (the 13-m long yellow arms that retract last-second on liftoff) and he's also a singer in a rock band 🎤🤘 but Space Oddity is not his favourite song.👨🎤 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Faces_of_Ariane_6_Franck https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Faces_of_Ariane_6_Franck"
X Link 2024-05-19T07:28Z 13K followers, [----] engagements
"An opportunity for companies to support us @EuropeSpacePort: @ESA and @CNES have modernisation and maintenance contract opportunities for work at Europes Spaceport in French Guiana https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/Digital_modernisation_and_extraordinary_maintenance_contracts_at_Europe_s_Spaceport https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Business_with_ESA/Digital_modernisation_and_extraordinary_maintenance_contracts_at_Europe_s_Spaceport"
X Link 2024-05-27T07:35Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Successful engine test boosts Vega-C towards return-to-flight. The Zefiro-40 solid rocket motor was tested today by Vega-C prime contractor @Avio_Group"
X Link 2024-05-28T15:10Z 13K followers, 25K engagements
"@orbexspace @D_Orbit and its last-mile satellite delivery service https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_gives_a_Boost_to_D-Orbit_industrial_ramp-up_plans https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_gives_a_Boost_to_D-Orbit_industrial_ramp-up_plans"
X Link 2024-06-06T07:26Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements
"@orbexspace @D_Orbit The @Skyrora_Ltd 23-meter 56-tonne three-stage XL launcher https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_boost_for_UK_space_transportation_initiatives https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Boost/ESA_boost_for_UK_space_transportation_initiatives"
X Link 2024-06-06T07:28Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements
"GRBBeta from @spacemanictech will launch on #Ariane6's first flight a successor to GRBAlpha the worlds smallest astrophysics space observatory and the first CubeSat to detect a gamma-ray burst from space🌟🧨👀"
X Link 2024-06-14T12:17Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Gamma-ray bursts are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies. They are the brightest and most extreme explosive events in the Universe a typical 'GRB' releases as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime🫨"
X Link 2024-06-14T12:17Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements
"Building on Alphas success GRBBeta will serve as a testbed for a range of new technologies that will be vital for future constellations of GRB-detecting satellites and other CubeSat missions. 📸Spacemanic team"
X Link 2024-06-14T12:17Z 13.1K followers, [--] engagements
"While Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 might steal the show its launch pad is a wonder of human engineering in itself 🧵"
X Link 2024-06-20T13:04Z 15.3K followers, 37.2K engagements
"The all-new launch zone for Ariane [--] was built @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana an area that covers roughly the same area as Berlin Germany. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/10/Europe_s_Spaceport_seen_from_space https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/10/Europe_s_Spaceport_seen_from_space"
X Link 2024-06-20T13:04Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Built and operated by Frances space agency @CNES the launch complex for #Ariane6 called ELA4 was built from the ground up. The site was chosen for its deep rocky subsoil capable of supporting the heaviest 900-tonne variant of Ariane [--] and its liftoff thrust"
X Link 2024-06-20T13:04Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Ariane [--] is kept inside a colossal 90-m-tall building that weighs more than the Eiffel tower. Before launch it rolls [---] m away in [--] minutes leaving our rocket a clear view of the skies. 🌬The building uses the steady winds that blow in the region for efficient cooling"
X Link 2024-06-20T13:04Z 13.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Our favourite picture taken during the #Ariane6 'wet dress-rehearsal' showing Europe's new rocket standing tall on the launch pad for the first time"
X Link 2024-06-23T06:40Z 13.2K followers, 17.2K engagements
"On Thursday the first Ariane [--] rocket to launch into space went through its last full wet dress rehearsal @EuropeSpacePort providing an exciting sneak peek of whats to come stopping just a few seconds before engine ignition and of course lift-off. https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_pre-show_wet_dress_rehearsal_complete https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_pre-show_wet_dress_rehearsal_complete"
X Link 2024-06-23T06:40Z 13.2K followers, [----] engagements
"And the name Nyx Bikini The name was chosen jokingly explains The Exploration Company CEO Hlne Huby the capsule might be almost naked when it splashes down and the bikini swimwear when it was invented in the 1960s was quite innovative"
X Link 2024-06-23T07:03Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Many companies work on Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 led by prime contractor and design authority @ArianeGroup"
X Link 2024-06-24T14:13Z 13.3K followers, 18.7K engagements
"The penultimate mission in our series on #Ariane6's first passengers is LIFI an experiment from @oledcomm consisting of two modules fixed to the rocket's upper stage [--] cm apart and communicating with each other not via Wi-Fi but 'Li-Fi' 💡💡🚀"
X Link 2024-06-28T08:51Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements
"While Wi-Fi uses radio waves to send data without wires Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) does the same using light. For certain applications it could offer greater security and higher bandwidth with a lower cost and power consumption. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=H6WQePpzyE8&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watchv=H6WQePpzyE8&t=6s"
X Link 2024-06-28T08:51Z 13.3K followers, [--] engagements
"#Ariane6: on the launch pad and ready for liftoff 🚀"
X Link 2024-06-28T15:23Z 13.3K followers, 11.9K engagements
"10 Countdown to liftoff 🚀 [--] days to #Ariane6 launch. [--] [---] tonnes is the displacement of rocket ship Canope the hybrid sail boat that transports Ariane [--] elements to Europe's Spaceport"
X Link 2024-06-29T05:12Z 15.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Ariane [--] rocket elements are manufactured in mainland Europe and then transported by Canopeto @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana. The ship is the first custom-built transporter to use sails reducing emissions and saving on fuel by up to 30%. ⛵ https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Shipping_rockets_Ariane_on_board https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Shipping_rockets_Ariane_on_board https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Shipping_rockets_Ariane_on_board"
X Link 2024-06-29T05:12Z 15.3K followers, [---] engagements
"9 Countdown to liftoff 🚀 [--] days to #Ariane6 launch. 9-storey building: Ariane [--] is housed inside a 90-m-tall building that moves [---] m away from the launch pad before liftoff the building weighs [---] [---] kg and is heavier than the Tour Eiffel in Paris"
X Link 2024-06-30T07:42Z 13.3K followers, [----] engagements
"4 Countdown to liftoff 🚀 [--] days to #Ariane6 launch. [--] is the maximum number of boosters Europe's new rocket can hold. On its first launch on Tuesday we are flying the two-booster version dubbed Ariane 62"
X Link 2024-07-05T12:23Z 15K followers, 13.9K engagements
"It may be wet today in French Guiana but this is no wet dress rehearsal. This evening #Ariane6 will take flight for the first time restoring Europe's autonomous access to space. Next step fuelling"
X Link 2024-07-09T13:03Z 15.3K followers, 33.3K engagements
"Just passed the hour mark to predicted liftoff time for #Ariane6. Next event: weather check at [--] minutes before launch"
X Link 2024-07-09T18:03Z 15K followers, 12.1K engagements
"The Vulcain engine roars to life reaching temperatures up to [----] degrees celsius. We have ignition 🔥🚀 #Ariane6 #PoweringEuropeToSpace"
X Link 2024-07-09T19:00Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"Everything is nominal #Ariane6"
X Link 2024-07-09T19:02Z 15.1K followers, 186.6K engagements
"#Ariane6 first flight: Phase [--] complete 1✅🎉 From Earth to orbit the first phase consists of events [--] to [--] in this infographic. Ariane [--] has proven it can match the typical flight profile of its predecessor #Ariane5 ECA"
X Link 2024-07-09T19:24Z 15.1K followers, 58.7K engagements
"🔥The #Ariane6 #Vinci engine refires for the first time in orbit This second boost is a short one lasting just [---] seconds and it changes the rocket's orbit from elliptical to circular at an altitude of [---] km"
X Link 2024-07-09T19:57Z 15.1K followers, 66.9K engagements
"It's pretty easy to fly into an elliptical orbit but circular With this second ignition #Ariane6 can put satellites straight into Geostationary Orbit meaning they dont each need their own propulsion system to circularise their paths"
X Link 2024-07-09T19:57Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"#Ariane6 first flight: Phase [--] complete 2✅🎉 With the reignition of the upper stage & deployment of all CubeSats Ariane [--] has completed it mission. This 2nd phase of the first flight consists of events [--] to [--] in this infographic: Ariane [--] has proven its brand new upper stage reignites in orbit and can deploy multiple varied missions into orbit"
X Link 2024-07-09T20:12Z 15.1K followers, 29.7K engagements
"Replay of the #Ariane6 post-launch press conference with @ESA @CNES @ArianeGroup and @Arianespace: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/07/Ariane_6_inaugural_flight_press_conference https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/07/Ariane_6_inaugural_flight_press_conference"
X Link 2024-07-10T00:42Z 15K followers, 33.7K engagements
"Liftoff of Europe's new rocket #Ariane6 from @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana at 16:00 local time on [--] July (20:00 BST 21:00 CEST). 🚀"
X Link 2024-07-10T00:48Z 15.4K followers, [----] engagements
"🤩 There's no sound but we cannot get enough of this video [--] minutes of high-definition rocket liftoff. 🚀 Relive the #Ariane6 launch in glorious slow-motion and in 4K from all camera angles from the launch pad to the upper stage in flight"
X Link 2024-07-14T07:44Z 15.1K followers, 116.9K engagements
"Who knew science after school could be so cool These beautiful images of Earth were taken by @GAREF_AERO's PariSat experiment onboard #Ariane6. Their mission was to test and verify 'black body radiation' but here they capture our Pale Blue Dot😍"
X Link 2024-07-19T09:21Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"@GAREF_AERO @esa @ESA_EO More information on the PariSat mission https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_PariSat_physics_in_space_after_school https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Ariane_6_launches_PariSat_physics_in_space_after_school"
X Link 2024-07-19T09:21Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"ESA kicks off development of new space subscription service🚀🌠 Work has begun on the #Omega space propulsion service after the initial contract was signed in early June with a consortium consisting of @DawnAerospace @uarxspace and @Spherical_Sys🎉"
X Link 2024-08-01T13:48Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Melissandre_L @SpaceHolgar @esa @ArianeGroup @Arianespace @RocketryKlima @MrAriane6 stay tuned. :)"
X Link 2024-08-07T10:29Z 15.2K followers, [--] engagements
"🔥New rocket engine test 🔥 @AviationPoland and ESA have developed and are testing a variable-thrust engine ideal for landing rocket stages on Earth upper stage kickstagesor exploration missions requiring a descent onto a moon or planet"
X Link 2024-08-08T13:31Z 15.6K followers, 28.2K engagements
"Set for launch on Vega flight VV24 on [--] September at 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST (3 September 22:50 local time) from @EuropeSpacePort French Guiana. A sneak peek at the VV24 fairing that will protect @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 C satellite during its flight to space🚀 In the past days we received good news from the launch site: the Operations Readiness Meeting at @esaoperations went well and the satellite passed the propulsion https://t.co/M0dvI6WRBP A sneak peek at the VV24 fairing that will protect @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 C satellite during its flight to space🚀 In the past days we received good"
X Link 2024-08-12T10:34Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"🚀🐳🐘🦛🦈 If ever you wondered how our rockets compare in terms of animals-to-orbit this graphic has got you covered. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/06/To_space_But_on_which_rocket https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2019/06/To_space_But_on_which_rocket"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:44Z 15.6K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Not a very large vacuum cleaner this is the complete top part of the next and last Vega rocket. Inside is Earth-observer #Sentinel2 C getting ready for launch. The "elephant trunk" supplies ventilation to the satellite inside"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, 12.3K engagements
"All aboard the @esa truck. 🛻The complete upper part of the rocket was transported from its assembly hall to the Vega launch pad yesterday"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The upper composite with Sentinel-2C inside was then hoisted to the top of the last Vega to fly"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Vega flight VV24 with @CopernicusEU/@ESA_EO Sentinel-2C onboard is set for liftoff on [--] September [----] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST (3 September 22:50 local time) from @EuropeSpacePort French Guiana"
X Link 2024-08-27T15:06Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The @Arianespace press kit for the next Vega rocket flight with Earth-observer #Sentinel2 C is avabilable with flight timeline and mission information: https://newsroom.arianespace.com/vega-flight-vv24/ https://newsroom.arianespace.com/vega-flight-vv24/"
X Link 2024-08-28T08:26Z 15.6K followers, 21.6K engagements
"🎙Journalists are invited to learn more about the last flight of Europes Vega launch (known as #VV24) carrying Sentinel-2C by registering for a pre-launch media briefing this Thursday. 📺The English briefing with will be streamed on from 10:30-11:30 CEST https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefings https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefings https://www.esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Media_invitation_Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefings"
X Link 2024-08-28T08:26Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Watch the media briefing on Vega flight #VV24 launching Earth-observer #Sentinel2 to space next week. Learn more about the Sentinel constellation of satellites 🛰🌍🛰 and why this is the last Vega of its generation to fly 🚀: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/08/Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefing https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/08/Sentinel-2C_pre-launch_media_briefing"
X Link 2024-08-29T11:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Final Vega launch with #Sentinel2 on board status update: 🟢launch readiness review: GO 🟢weather: favourable We're all set for liftoff tonight [--] September 22:50 local time from @EuropeSpacePort [--] September [----] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST 🚀"
X Link 2024-09-03T07:58Z 15.6K followers, 70.1K engagements
"@EuropeSpacePort @ESA_EO At the top of the rocket inside the fairing is @ESA_EO/@CopernicusEU's Sentinel-2C. 🛰🛰🛰 #Sentinel2C is the third satellite in this constellation of Earth-observers that Vega will be launching into space. http://www.esa.int/sentinel http://www.esa.int/sentinel"
X Link 2024-09-03T08:03Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"It's the final countdown for Vega. The launch chronology has started for tonight's Vega rocket launch setting up for liftoff of #VV24 on [--] September [----] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST. Watch live: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket"
X Link 2024-09-03T18:58Z 15.6K followers, 24.1K engagements
"Checks for the last Vega launch flight #VV24 with Earth-observer #Sentinel2C are complete and a new launch attempt is set same time a day later: 📅September [--] 22:50 (local time @EuropeSpacePort) 📅September [--] 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST. 📺Watch live: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket"
X Link 2024-09-04T07:19Z 15.6K followers, 25.4K engagements
"It's the final countdown for Vega take two. The launch chronology has started for tonight's liftoff with @ESA_EO/@CopernicusEU Sentinel-2C satellite switched on and waiting for launch. 🚀 📅 [--] September 02:50 BST/03:50 CEST Live: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket"
X Link 2024-09-04T20:29Z 15.6K followers, 20.2K engagements
"Weather report is "green for go" for Vega #VV24 liftoff in less than four hours. A final weather check will occur [--] minutes to liftoff"
X Link 2024-09-04T22:10Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Meanwhile near Mercury @BepiColombo is set to send us back pictures from the surface. #LaunchedIt https://x.com/BepiColombo/status/1831449156482711783 Right now #BepiColombo is just [---] km from Mercury's surface. This is the closest the spacecraft has ever been and the closest it will ever get. Having just passed the planet's north pole the spacecraft will soon capture its first-ever images of the south pole. Stay tuned https://t.co/ZQKagPRJPQ https://x.com/BepiColombo/status/1831449156482711783 Right now #BepiColombo is just [---] km from Mercury's surface. This is the closest the spacecraft"
X Link 2024-09-04T22:17Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The mobile gantry protecting Vega #VV24 on the launch pad has been rolled back revealing our rocket to the skies one step closer to liftoff. 🚀 This archive timelapse shows how the 50-m tall launch tower around Vega rolls back for launch"
X Link 2024-09-04T22:30Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"This photo shows the roll-back of the mobile gantry in progress for Vega flight #VV24"
X Link 2024-09-04T23:15Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The last Vega rocket of its kind standing free on the launch pad ready for liftoff 🚀 📺Watch live from 02:30 BST/03:30 CEST to see the launch of Earth-observer #Sentinel2C https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-2/Watch_Sentinel-2C_launch_live_on_the_final_Vega_rocket"
X Link 2024-09-04T23:19Z 15.6K followers, 10.9K engagements
"Less than four minutes to the last-ever liftoff for a Vega rocket as the launcher starts its final countdown and its avionics take over control. Watch live now: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV/(offset)/2 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV/(offset)/2"
X Link 2024-09-05T01:47Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Liftoff of Vega flight #VV24 with Earth-observer #Sentinel2 C onboard"
X Link 2024-09-05T01:50Z 15.6K followers, 22.1K engagements
"The fairing nose cone has split into two revealing #Sentinel2 C inside"
X Link 2024-09-05T01:59Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Third stage has separated now from the AVUM fourth stage and the Sentinel-2C passenger"
X Link 2024-09-05T02:00Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The fourth stage AVUM will now spend over an hour with Sentinel-2C to take it to its correct orbit. Its first firing lasts for over [--] minutes"
X Link 2024-09-05T02:01Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The fourth AVUM stage for Vega has finished its first boost. #Sentinel2 C is now coasting over Earth en route to its orbit. The second AVUM boost is set for 03:44 BST/04:44 CEST that will bring Sentinel-2C to a precise drop-off point in its polar orbit"
X Link 2024-09-05T02:19Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Fly free #Sentinel2 C Separation confirmed at 03:47 BST/04:47 CEST the fourth stage of the last-ever Vega rocket sent Earth-observer Sentinel-2C on its way"
X Link 2024-09-05T02:55Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"A great last flight for the Vega rocket last week launching #Sentinel2 C to orbit. 🚀 Meet some of #SpaceTeamEurope for Vega"
X Link 2024-09-10T13:21Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"🚀 @ESA and @SpaceForest2 just signed a Boost contract to further develop and commercialise the Perun suborbital launch service"
X Link 2024-10-01T14:41Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@esa @SpaceForest2 Based in Poland @SpaceForest2 is developing a commercial single-stage European sounding rocket offering almost four minutes of microgravity. The 11-m tall rocket will be able to launch [--] kg up to [---] km offering high-quality microgravity periods of flight"
X Link 2024-10-01T14:43Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The upper stage sits above the main stage and under the satellites when on the launch pad. At ESTEC it is "on its side" but will be moved upright for testing soon"
X Link 2024-10-06T13:21Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"The upper stage at ESTEC arrived earlier this week after leaving its test stand @DLR_en in Lampoldshausen "
X Link 2024-10-06T13:21Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🔥 We love rocket engines Here's @SpaceForest2's SF-1000 engine being tested in Poland . The engine runs on nitrous oxide and modified paraffin commonly used as candle wax and powers the company's Perun rocket 🚀"
X Link 2024-10-08T14:08Z 15.5K followers, 14.7K engagements
"🚀Liftoff date for the next Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 : 📆3 December [----] 18:20 local time @EuropeSpacePort (21:20 GMT 22:20 CET) 🛰 Launching Earth observer #Sentinel1 C 🚀#VV25: On Dec. [--] #Arianespace will launch #Sentinel1C 🛰@CopernicusEU for @EU_Commission & @esa ➡ Providing crucial environmental data 🌍& carrying out our commitment of guaranteeing #Europes access to #space ➡ Marking the return-to-flight of Vega C https://t.co/XaWZaEmwvW https://t.co/wgUB2PDVUO 🚀#VV25: On Dec. [--] #Arianespace will launch #Sentinel1C 🛰@CopernicusEU for @EU_Commission & @esa ➡ Providing crucial"
X Link 2024-10-10T11:48Z 15.5K followers, 15.8K engagements
"The [---] m long rocket motor Zefiro-40 left its storage building by truck"
X Link 2024-10-15T13:44Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
". to arrive at the Vega-C launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in French Guiana"
X Link 2024-10-15T13:44Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Vega development started in the 1990s over [--] years ago officially becoming an @ESA programme in 1998"
X Link 2024-10-15T15:56Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Its start was not easy in the 1990s there was no market for smaller satellites but @ESA with support from Belgium Italy France The Netherlands Spain Sweden Switzerland decided to go ahead"
X Link 2024-10-15T15:56Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending the next Vega-C launch on [--] December with @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. 📅Deadline [--] October 12:00 CEST: https://esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Call_for_interest_Copernicus_Sentinel-1C_launch_media_event_at_Europe_s_Spaceport https://esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/Call_for_interest_Copernicus_Sentinel-1C_launch_media_event_at_Europe_s_Spaceport"
X Link 2024-10-17T14:22Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The next Vega-C rocket flight set to launch Earth-observer #Sentinel1 C to space is taking shape on the launch pad with the third stage stacked. Next: the AVUM+ fourth stage. Follow its progress in images: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad After the P120C and the Zefiro-40 comes. Zefiro-9. The third stage for the Vega-C flight that will rocket #Sentinel1-C to orbit in December has arrived at the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort. https://t.co/0R8PJHVumF https://t.co/mUEPahLY8d"
X Link 2024-10-22T14:25Z 17.1K followers, 29.2K engagements
"A look at the environmental sustainability of space transportation: 🛰🌍🚀 https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Environmentally_sustainable_space_transport https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Environmentally_sustainable_space_transport"
X Link 2024-10-24T13:04Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Less than a week left to apply for this year's Student Aerospace Challenge. Teams of up to five university students are challenged to write a report on all types of themes from mission design to market analysis from medicine to propulsion. More info: https://www.esa.int/Education/Engagement/Student_Aerospace_Challenge_2024-2025 https://www.esa.int/Education/Engagement/Student_Aerospace_Challenge_2024-2025"
X Link 2024-10-25T13:50Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The reusable rocket stage demonstrator Themis is being built up with all the components to launch land vertically and be reused for another mission"
X Link 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, 49.1K engagements
"Themis comes in at [--] m tall and its stainless-steel tank for the rockets liquid methane and oxygen propellant have been cleaned since last use on a test stand in Vernon France. The tanks are now closed and ready for fitting to the rocket's main structures"
X Link 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The engine called Prometheus was installed on the launchers engine bay followed by the thrust vector actuation system that allows the engines forces to be directed and controlled"
X Link 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Prometheus is a reusable engine that can vary its thrust from 30% to short bursts of 110% thrust needed for liftoff and landing"
X Link 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"The assembly hall is @ArianeGroup's site in Les Mureaux the same place that Ariane [--] main stages were assembled"
X Link 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Meanwhile in Sweden the launch pad for Themis is being developed at @SSCspace's Esrange facility"
X Link 2024-11-06T12:54Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The Vega-C rocket received its fourth and final stage in the build-up to launch #Sentinel1-C last month 🚚🏗🚀"
X Link 2024-11-08T15:49Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"See the process of assembling all four stages for this Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 on the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in pictures here: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad"
X Link 2024-11-08T15:49Z 15.6K followers, [--] engagements
"The Vega-C rocket received its fourth and final stage in the build-up to launch #Sentinel1-C 🚚🏗🚀"
X Link 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"See the process of all four stages being stacked to create the Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 on the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in pictures: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad"
X Link 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"The Vega-C rocket received its fourth and final stage in the build-up to launch #Sentinel1-C 🚚🏗🚀"
X Link 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"See the process of all four stages being stacked to create the Vega-C rocket flight #VV25 on the launch pad @EuropeSpacePort in pictures: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega-C/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_on_its_launch_pad"
X Link 2024-11-08T16:02Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"🙂Looking forward to launch the Smile mission next year ☀💨🛰🌍 Meet our Smile mission 👇 https://t.co/MEVzK6eH1w 🎥ESA/Lightcurve Films https://t.co/eicrbng8I4 ☀💨🛰🌍 Meet our Smile mission 👇 https://t.co/MEVzK6eH1w 🎥ESA/Lightcurve Films https://t.co/eicrbng8I4"
X Link 2024-11-13T15:40Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"ESA is extending its commitment to the new generation of commercial-led European launch services through its Boost programme awarding contract extensions with four companies towards deployment of their launch services. 👇"
X Link 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.6K followers, 23.2K engagements
"@rfa_space have started conducting integrated tests on their RFA One at the @SaxaVord_Space launch facility. The Boost co-funding will help Rocket Factory Augsburg prepare the next first stage flight hardware for more testing and launch"
X Link 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.6K followers, [---] engagements
"@isaraerospace is conducting integrated testing of the stages of its Spectrum launch vehicle. The funds of this Boost contract will be focused on completing their test campaign preparing the rockets first test flight @andoyaspace launch facility. Moreover ESA's support will follow steps preparing the second test flight of the Spectrum rocket and scaling-up of production facilities at the companys new headquarters in Vaterstetten Germany"
X Link 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"ESA's Boost contract with @orbexspace will allow the company to proceed towards the first demonstration flight of its Prime launch vehicle. It covers important steps towards qualifying carbon-fibre fuel tanks and the integrated testing and launch of Prime"
X Link 2024-11-19T11:33Z 15.5K followers, [--] engagements
"@isaraerospace is conducting integrated testing of the stages of its Spectrum launch vehicle. The funds of this Boost contract will be focused on completing their test campaign preparing the rockets first test flight @andoyaspace launch facility. Moreover ESA's support will follow steps preparing the second test flight of the Spectrum rocket and scaling-up of production facilities at the companys new headquarters in Vaterstetten Germany"
X Link 2024-11-19T11:42Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@rfa_space @SaxaVord_Space @isaraerospace @AndoyaSpace ESA's Boost contract with @orbexspace will allow the company to proceed towards the first demonstration flight of its Prime launch vehicle. It covers important steps towards qualifying carbon-fibre fuel tanks and the integrated testing and launch of Prime"
X Link 2024-11-19T11:43Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"Yesterday @esa and @ArianeGroup signed two contract riders to continue demonstrations of the reuseable Prometheus engine and Themis rocket stage demonstrator: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Future_space_transportation/Signing_secures_next_steps_for_reusable_rocket_demonstrations https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Future_space_transportation/Signing_secures_next_steps_for_reusable_rocket_demonstrations"
X Link 2024-11-21T08:07Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Like to cook with rocket We do😍 @SpacePeps reuses metals from the manufacture of #Ariane [--] rockets and sustainably sourced wood from the forests of French Guiana to create personalisable culinary knives"
X Link 2024-11-22T12:20Z 15.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@ESA_EO @CopernicusEU @esaoperations @esa @Arianespace @defis_eu @Avio_Group @Thales_Alenia_S See you later #Sentinel-1C now cosy and acclimatised inside our beautiful rocket fairing. Like a cherry on a cake this "upper composite" will be transported to the top of Vega-C ready for launch next week See how Vega-C is being built up: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_for_Sentinel-1C https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Vega/Building_Vega-C_flight_VV25_for_Sentinel-1C"
X Link 2024-11-25T15:16Z 15.5K followers, [---] engagements
"🤝Taking over until space the next step will be putting Sentinel-1C on top of our Vega-C rocket for launch next week. 📅Flight #VV25 [--] December [----] 18:20 local time @EuropeSpacePort (21:20 GMT 22:20 CET)🚀 Last photos of the @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C satellite The spacecraft is now fully encapsulated in the Vega-C #VV25 fairing- which means that launch is quickly approaching🚀 Launch is scheduled on [--] December; follow @ESA_transport and @esaoperations for more updates. 📸ESA https://t.co/aVHc6j8g8L Last photos of the @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C satellite The spacecraft is now fully"
X Link 2024-11-25T15:23Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
"🔊Sound on (but it's very loud). Hear the mighty power of @Avio_Group's Zefiro-40 during testing. In just two minutes this rocket stage burns through [-----] kg of propellant See it fire into action live next week on the Vega-C launch as it helps propel #Sentinel1-C to orbit 🚀"
X Link 2024-11-26T14:57Z 15.5K followers, [----] engagements
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