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We will upload the important launch videos of today's Ariane 6 launch to our PeerTube streaming platform and add them to this live ticker during the next few hours.

It took 7 years for Amazon and Ariane Space to work on this launch. The Director of Ariane Space has just announced that the next Ariane 6 launch will carry the next Amazon LEO satellites. The exact date will be announced in the coming days.

And the last separation of Amazon Leo satellites was successful. Payload deployment successful. Now the upper stage will return to Earth and touch down in the Indian Ocean.

Separation 10 and 11 have been successful. One Separation left, with the last satellite.

Separation 8 and 9 are successful. And another change of the tracking ground station has been processed. It's the plan is to archive 8-9 launches of Ariane 6 per year until 2027.

Separations 5, 6 and 7 have been successful. The upper stage will switch to the next tracking station now. Today the upper stage will switch to a lot of tracking stations as we fly several times around Earth.

The next separation of 3 Amazon LEO satellites have been successful. We have 12 separation milestones in the sequence. We have fulfilled 4 now.

And the next group of 3 satellites have separated.

The next three satellites have separated successfully.

The first 3 of 32 satellites have separated in the target orbit. The satellites will be deployed in 3, 2 and one groups. After separation is done the upper stage will return and decent in the Indian Ocean.

In 10 minutes we continue with the next milestone.

The current tracking signal comes from the ground station in New Zealand, originally build for the Juice Mission a few years ago. The short second burn is confirmed. We have reached the right orbit.

Ariane 6 before the launch

Photo: ESA, Ariane Space

In around 47 minutes the second burn will ignite. We have a break till that. See you in 47 minutes.

The first boost has finished. A second boost will happen next followed by the separation of the Amazon LEO satellites.

Ariane 6 flies now 7 km per second.

The Ariane 6 is now flying over Europe, the further to India. The ground station on the Portuguese island Santa Maria in the Atlantic Ocean has taken over the tracking signal now.

The main stage has separated. The next milestone of the launch was successful.

Currently the 150 tonnes of hydrogen and oxygen are burned by the main engine. We have a successful tracking from the ground station in the Atlantic ocean.

4 tonnes of propellant have been burned per second of the launch of Ariane 6.

The boosters have separated.

A powerful launch of Ariane 6 with 32 Amazon LEO satellites. Everything looks good.

And launch of Ariane 6. 20 seconds in the air. everything is normal.

1 minute to launch. Everything is green.

We have a 29 minutes launch window today. The Ariane 6 flight computer will give the automatic ignition of the boosters and the launch

The synchronized sequence has begun. 4 minutes to launch.

Satellites have been all build in house at Amazon. Amazon has a long term contract with ESA to launch the LEO satellites to space. 18 launches are planned to complete the first constellation.

Amazons LEO satellites are known under project Kuiper before and are the beginning of Amazons satellite internet system. Several years after Space X started Starlink.

The Ariane 6 is ready for launch at French Guiana. Three of the boosters have been implemented in the last days during one day. Then the fourth was added. The 4 booster rocket can carry 120 tones of payload.

Welcome and good evening. In about 15 minutes Ariane 6 will launch the first time with 4 booster rockets to transport the first Amazon LEO satellites to orbit.

Welcome to our Live Coverage of first launch of the Ariane 6 with 4 booster rockets.
Our live coverage will start February 12, 2025 at 17:30 CET, focusing the first launch of the Ariane 6 with 4 booster rockets to bring 32 Amazon LEO satellites into orbit.

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