{"id":833466,"date":"2026-07-29T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833466\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T10:41:08","slug":"liftoff-as-ariane-6-takes-flight-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833466\/","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024 on its inaugural flight VA262.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s newest heavy-lift rocket, provides great power and flexibility at a lower cost than its predecessors. The launcher\u2019s configuration \u2013 with an upgraded main stage, a choice of either two or four powerful boosters and a new restartable upper stage \u2013 provides Europe with greater efficiency and possibility as it can launch multiple missions into different orbits on a single flight, while its upper stage will deorbit itself at the end of mission.<\/p>\n<p>This image was also selected as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/Branding_and_Partnerships\/France_s_postal_service_La_Poste_honours_Ariane_6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-stamp collector&#8217;s set initiated by La Poste de Guyane<\/a>, La Poste&#8217;s regional branch in French Guiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024 on its inaugural flight VA262. Europe\u2019s newest heavy-lift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-833466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}