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ESA Rideshares - Demo Flight
Launch Partial Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
19:00:00
Tuesday July 9, 2024
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Launch Notes
First flight of Ariane 6, first flight from the ELA-4 launch pad. Launch was nominal from liftoff to in-orbit micro-satellite payloads separation, but during subsequent coasting phase the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) failed while firing, preventing de-orbit burn from happening and stranding the 2 customer re-entry capsules in orbit.
GRBBeta
2U CubeSat for testing technologies to improve Gamma Ray Burst detection by Spacemanic and the Technical University of Kosice.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
1 kilograms
SpaceCase SC-X01
Test re-entry capsule for reentry technologies such as new-generation ablative materials for thermal protection systems for the ArianeGroup.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
40 kilograms
ISTSAT-1
1U CubeSat for characterisation of aircraft’s ‘cone of silence’ and in-flight performances of a custom-made Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system for the University of Lisbon.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
1 kilograms
3Cat4
1U CubeSat for the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for testing of various payloads including atmospheric/ocean measurements with GNSS reflectometry and an L-band radiometer, a spring like antenna and an AIS ship tracking system.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
1 kilograms
OOV-Cube
Microsatellite by Technical University of Berlin and RapidCubes for testing various technologies including Internet-of-Things (IoT) communication technologies for agriculture use and image processing in orbit using Artificial Intelligence.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
10 kilograms
CuriumOne
12U amateur radio cubesat by Planetary Transportation Systems and Libre Space Foundation testing various radio systems.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
18 kilograms
Nyx Bikini
Test re-entry capsule by The Exploration Company to test atmospheric reentry techniques for future cargo resupply spacecraft designs.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
Robusta-3A
3U Cubesat from University Space Center of Montpellier for testing GNSS reflectometry techniques for mapping atmospheric water vapour.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
Replicator
3U cubesat by RIDE!space / Orbital Matter for testing 3D printing polymer materials in orbit.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
CURIE A & B
Two 3U cubesats from NASA to study radio burst emissions from solar eruptive events such as flares and coronal mass ejections in the inner heliosphere.
Low Earth Orbit
2 Payloads
Non-deployed experiments
* PariSat (GAREF) * Peregrinus (Sint-Pieterscollege) * LIFI (OLEDCOMM) * SIDLOC (Libre Space) * YPSat (ESA)
Low Earth Orbit
5 Payloads
Launch Site
Launching
Northeast
Stats
Ariane 6
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 2024
European Space Agency
15th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2024
2024
130th
Orbital launch attempt