WATCH LIVE: 100th Ariane 5 Rocket Launches Carrying Two US Communications Satellites 🚀🚀 | Interesting Engineering

112 successes. Relive past Ariane 5 launches alongside us while waiting for the next chapter that is being written right now, just a few miles from this legendary launch pad. What was your favorite Ariane 5 launch? #OneLastAriane5 #Arianespace #ArianeGroup #Ariane5 ESA - European Space Agency CNES CSG Centre spatial guyanais | ArianeGroup

🚀✨ Ariane 5 is an adventure, four entities, many teams working hard and, in early September, 100 launches. Thank you! For more info on Ariane and its 100th launch, visit bit.ly/withariane | ArianeGroup

June 4th - on this day in 1996, ESA - European Space Agency conducted the first launch of its Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle. The payload consisted of four 1,200 kg Cluster satellites, which were intended to conduct research into the Earth's magnetosphere. 37 seconds after liftoff from CSG Centre spatial guyanais, the rocket veered off course and began to disintegrate, prior to being destroyed by the Range Safety Officer. The reasons for the failure were multiple embarrassing software errors

Welcome to Space Ariane 6! After years of development Arianespace has launched the Ariane 6 rocket for the first time. Today's ride-share mission for the ESA - European Space Agency launched from Ensemble de Lancement Ariane-4 (ELA-4) launch pad at CSG Centre spatial guyanais in Kourou, French Guiana. On board were 11 deployable payloads for multiple universities and agencies including ESA and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as well as 5 non deployable experiments. 🎥 ESA -