A key supplier for the Ariane 6 rocket seems to have ruled out a 2023 launch.
We'll likely have to wait a little longer for the launch of Ariane 6.
One of ArianeGroup's key suppliers for its next-generation Ariane 6 rocket appears to have confirmed that we won't see the launch system take flight this year, aDuring a May 10 earnings call, executives from German aerospace company OHB predicted that the rocket will perform its long-delayed debut launch in the first months of 2024.
— to take place in the fourth quarter of 2023. Now, an update on that timeline has come from a third party providing parts for the rocket."[Ariane 6 has] not yet launched, but we hope that it will launch in the early part of next year," Marco Fuchs, CEO of OHB, said during a presentation about the company's Q1 financial results. OHB produces tanks and structures for Ariane 6 via a subsidiary called MT Aerospace.
Fuchs also added during the call that he is "getting more and more confident we will see the first launch of Ariane 6 early next year. I think we are within a year of the first launch and that is psychologically very important."
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