{"id":229115,"date":"2025-10-28T00:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229115\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:25:13","slug":"arianegroup-to-transfer-responsibility-for-vinci-assembly-to-german-subsidiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229115\/","title":{"rendered":"ArianeGroup to Transfer Responsibility for Vinci Assembly to German Subsidiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ArianeGroup-to-Transfer-Responsibility-for-Vinci-Assembly-to-German-Subsidiary.webp.webp\" alt=\"ArianeGroup to transfer responsibility for Vinci engine assembly and testing from France to Germany, with a new Lampoldshausen facility set to be built.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5399 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/500;\"\/>Credit: ArianeGroup<\/p>\n<p>ArianeGroup will transfer responsibility for the assembly of Ariane 6 Vinci upper-stage engines from Vernon, France, to Lampoldshausen, Germany. The agreement, signed on 24 October, will also see the transfer of responsibility for the development of the Ariane 6 oxygen turbopump from Avio\u2019s headquarters in Colleferro to Vernon.<\/p>\n<p>While the 24 October ESA press announcement stated that the new agreement \u201ccompletes a decision between Germany, Italy, France, and ESA signed on 18 December 2024,\u201d the groundwork for that decision had already been laid years earlier. It was initially approved during proceedings at the ESA Ministerial Conference in late 2019, as noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/questions.assemblee-nationale.fr\/q15\/15-41603QE.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French National Assembly question-and-answer exchange<\/a> from 2021 that included questions about the move potentially resulting in the loss of 600 jobs. In its response, the company noted that while the production of Prometheus engines would allow it to retain a few, it had a \u201cvoluntary departure plan\u201d to reduce its workforce by 527.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to clarity on the cuts to its workforce, the ArianeGroup statement to the French National Assembly also included a justification for the transfer, stating it would \u201coptimise the competitiveness of Ariane 6,\u201d helping to secure the \u201cfinancial viability of Ariane 6 with a rate of 7 launches per year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each Vinci engine for Ariane 6 will now be assembled, integrated, and tested at Lampoldshausen. To support this process, a new production facility will be built, the plans for which were unveiled in the announcement on 24 October. The engines will then be transferred to Bremen for integration with the rocket\u2019s upper stage. The stage will then be shipped to the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana aboard the Ariane 6 transport vessel Canop\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>According to ArianeGroup, its new facility in Lampoldshausen will be capable of delivering up to twelve Vinci engines per year. It did not, however, provide an indication of when the facility would be completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: ArianeGroup ArianeGroup will transfer responsibility for the assembly of Ariane 6 Vinci upper-stage engines from Vernon, France,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[89875,74587,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ariane-6","9":"tag-arianegroup","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}