Past launch
Launched successfully
Metop-SG A1
Ariane 62, flown by Arianespace
Launches / Ariane 62
Ariane 62, flown by Arianespace
This was Arianespace's 4th launch of 2025, and its 321st in all.
Counting every operator, it was the 177th orbital launch attempt anywhere in 2025, and the second from Ariane Launch Area 4.
Arianespace
First of EUMETSAT's second generation of Metop weather satellites.
Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security.
The Ariane 6 family is currently under development by the European Space Agency, with two variations including the Ariane 62 with two solid boosters intended for government and scientific missions.
6 flights, 6 of them successful.
Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the production, operation, and marketing of the Ariane programme. Their vehicles launch exclusively from French Guiana in South America.
328 launches so far, 313 of them successful. The last 16 in a row went to plan.
It went up from Ariane Launch Area 4 at Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana.
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