{"id":717040,"date":"2026-07-29T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717040\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:54:14","slug":"liftoff-as-ariane-6-takes-flight-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717040\/","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024 on its inaugural flight VA262.<\/p>\n

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

This image was also selected as one of the eight-stamp collector’s set initiated by La Poste de Guyane<\/a>, La Poste’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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717040","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=717040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}