{"id":276574,"date":"2026-02-10T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:19:17","slug":"ariane-6-more-boosters-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/276574\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 6: more boosters, more power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For its most powerful flight yet, Ariane 6 lifts off for the first time with four boosters.<\/p>\n<p>Designed for versatility, Ariane 6 can adapt to each mission: flying with two boosters for lighter payloads, or four boosters when more power is needed.<\/p>\n<p>In its four-booster configuration, Ariane 6 can carry larger and heavier spacecraft into orbit, enabling some of Europe\u2019s most ambitious missions \u2014 from science missions like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Plato\" title=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Plato\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PLATO<\/a>\u00a0to exploration systems such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Exploration\/Argonaut_Europe_s_lunar_lander_programme\" title=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Exploration\/Argonaut_Europe_s_lunar_lander_programme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Argonaut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tEmbed code<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For its most powerful flight yet, Ariane 6 lifts off for the first time with four boosters. Designed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-276574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}