Europe 1 with AFP 5:26 p.m., October 19, 2022

The director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Wednesday that the maiden flight of the Ariane 6 rocket has been postponed to the last quarter of 2023 due to delays in testing the new launcher.

The maiden flight of the Ariane 6 rocket is now scheduled for the last quarter of 2023, announced on Wednesday the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), which had been forced in the spring to postpone it until next year due to delays. taken in the tests of the new launcher.

“It is a scheduled date and the program will still have to achieve a certain number of key stages successively and in due time for this calendar to remain valid,” said Josef Aschbacher during a press conference.

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