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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 02:06:44 JST AkaSci 🛰️

   Video recap of the maiden launch of the Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.

   It also deployed 9 cubesats into Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJa9AJk-Gfg
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   • AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 02:06:43 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     • Mark McCaughrean

     Scene from the iconic Jupiter Mission Control Room at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, during today's Ariane 6 launch.

     Symmetric enough @markmccaughrean ?
     Credit: ESA Space Transport
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   • AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 02:06:43 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     Ariane 6 Press Conference from the Jupiter Mission Control Room at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

     Late in the mission, the upper stage’s auxiliary power unit suffered an anomaly that caused a premature engine shutdown. Consequently, the two test re-entry capsules were not released, and the upper stage could not reenter the atmosphere as planned. It will enter the atmosphere in a few years as its orbit decays naturally.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0n_0sviFkA
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     Flipboard Science Desk repeated this.
   • AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 02:06:43 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     Here are some beautiful photographs of the inaugural launch of Ariane 6 yesterday from Kourou, French Guiana, taken from 3 Rafale aircraft of the French Air and Space Force (Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace)

     Source: Twitter
     #Ariane
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   • AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 02:06:44 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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     C'est notre Histoire spatiale.
     C'est notre autonomie stratégique.
     C'est une fierté française et européenne.

     Le premier lancement d'Ariane 6 est un succès !

     Immense bravo aux équipes qui rendent possible ce qui paraît impossible. Mission accomplie.

     - Emmanuel Macron

     Mission accomplished 🚀
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