🚀 How is choosing the right moment to release the fairing an engineering challenge?
Because separating it too early... or too late... both come with consequences. 🧵
ArianeGroup
@ArianeGroup
🚀We are #RocketMakers. Pioneers engineers building the most modular launchers. With Ariane 6, we weave a connection between Europe & space.
Joined November 2015
- 🎯 Ariane 6 brings MTG-I2 to space. The satellite's ArianeGroup 400 N engine takes it the rest of the way. Over the next 2–3 weeks, it performs a series of orbital manoeuvres to reach its final position 36,000 km above Earth. #RocketMakers #SpacePropulsion #MTGI2
- At ArianeGroup, working with liquid hydrogen means dealing with extremes on every flight. The mistake is to think that solving one challenge is enough to master liquid hydrogen. Liquid hydrogen combines three extreme physical properties at once, and none of them can be solved
- 🚀 A launcher's fairing has one mission: protecting the payload. Achieving that mission is far more complex than it looks.
- 🚀 We all know Ariane 6's propulsion. Solid boosters.
Vulcain 2.1.
Vinci. But once MTG-I2 separates from the launcher, another ArianeGroup propulsion system takes over. Because launch is only the beginning of the journey. #RocketMakers #SpacePropulsion #MTGI2
