Status
Partial Failure
ESA Rideshares - Demo Flight
Tue Jul 09, 2024 19:00 UTC
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.
Rocket
Mission Details
SpaceCase SC-X01
Test re-entry capsule for reentry technologies such as new-generation ablative materials for thermal protection systems for the ArianeGroup.
GRBBeta
2U CubeSat for testing technologies to improve Gamma Ray Burst detection by Spacemanic and the Technical University of Kosice.
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.
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.
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.
CuriumOne
12U amateur radio cubesat by Planetary Transportation Systems and Libre Space Foundation testing various radio systems.
Nyx Bikini
Test re-entry capsule by The Exploration Company to test atmospheric reentry techniques for future cargo resupply spacecraft designs.
Robusta-3A
3U Cubesat from University Space Center of Montpellier for testing GNSS reflectometry techniques for mapping atmospheric water vapour.
Replicator
3U cubesat by RIDE!space / Orbital Matter for testing 3D printing polymer materials in orbit.
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.
Non-deployed experiments
* PariSat (GAREF)
* Peregrinus (Sint-Pieterscollege)
* LIFI (OLEDCOMM)
* SIDLOC (Libre Space)
* YPSat (ESA)