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Vol VA266 | Galileo L14 | Ariane 6 | Arianespace

Le 17 décembre 2025, à 2h01 heure locale (5h01 UTC, 6h01 CET), Arianespace a lancé avec succès la paire de satellites de la mission Galileo L14 depuis le port spatial européen en Guyane française. La mission, désignée VA266, était le cinquième vol d'Ariane 6. Celle-ci a été réalisée avec une …

Galileo SAT 33-34 launch 14 (Official broadcast)

On 17 December, two Galileo satellites will be launched on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in the 14th launch of operational satellites for the Galileo programme. This will be Galileo’s first launch on Ariane 6 and the fifth launch of Europe’s heavy-lift launcher. The two …

Ariane 6 Flight VA266

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Galileo L14 (FOC FM33 & FM34)

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Overview

Destination: Medium Earth Orbit
Mission: Navigation

Medium Earth Orbit Ariane Launch Area 4 Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana VA266

Payload consists of two satellites for Europe's Galileo navigation system.

Updates

Nosu • Nov. 20, 2025, 9:38 a.m.

Updating Galileo FM numbers, adding launch date and time, and setting GO.


Nosu • July 16, 2025, 7:05 a.m.

NET December 2025


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 17, 2025, 4:38 a.m.

Tweaked T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • Dec. 17, 2025, 5:02 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • Dec. 17, 2025, 8:05 a.m.

Official Webcast by arianespace has started


Ariane 62

Family:
Configuration: 62

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.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    63.0 m
  • Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.4 m
  • Launch Mass
    530.0 T
  • Thrust
    10370.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Ariane 62
  • Family
  • Variant
    62
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Ariane 62
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $85000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    10900.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    5100.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity
    6450.0 kg

ArianeGroup

ArianeGroup

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CEO: Martin Sion Founded: 2015 Successes: 0 Failures: 0 Pending: 0

Agency Type:

ArianeGroup (formerly Airbus Safran Launchers) is an aerospace company based in France. A joint venture between Airbus and Safran, the company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux. It consists of three core arms: aerospace, defence and security.

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