{"id":68282,"date":"2024-07-10T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/07\/10\/ariane-6-launch-returns-in-house-space-access-to-europes-armed-forces\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:09:59","slug":"ariane-6-launch-returns-in-house-space-access-to-europes-armed-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2024\/07\/10\/ariane-6-launch-returns-in-house-space-access-to-europes-armed-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 6 launch returns in-house space access to Europe\u2019s armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PARIS \u2014 Europe restored sovereign access to space with the first launch of the Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket on Tuesday, after years of delays and retirement of the previous launcher had left the continent without guaranteed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/\">access to orbit<\/a>, and kept a French spy satellite grounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The all-new Ariane 6 blasted off from French Guiana for a validation flight loaded with scientific experiments and testing equipment. The next flight planned for December will carry CSO-3, a French military-surveillance satellite that had originally been scheduled for launch in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis first successful launch of Ariane 6 finally gives Europe back its capacity to access space,\u201d Philippe Baptiste, the head of French space agency CNES, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first launch of Ariane 6, originally planned for 2020, had been pushed back by technical issues as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. Russia broke off space cooperation in 2022 after its invasion of Ukraine, meaning Europe could no longer use the Soyuz launchers as a stop-gap measure, and leaving the continent reliant on commercial providers including SpaceX for heavy space lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most urgent upcoming military missions for Ariane 6 are observation satellites including CSO-3, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifri.org\/en\/about\/team\/paul-wohrer\">Paul Wohrer<\/a>, a research fellow specialized in space issues at the French Institute of International Relations, or IFRI. France also still has to launch the Yoda agile satellite demonstrator, after the small patroller satellite was held up by a lack of launch slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lack of autonomous access to space was \u201cbecoming dangerous,\u201d leaving Europe unable to launch satellites that are \u201cextremely sensitive and extremely useful for our armed forces,\u201d according to Wohrer, and pushing back future programs such as the French IRIS military-observation satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European armies \u201cneed this type of space capability, particularly at a time when war is on Europe\u2019s doorstep,\u201d Wohrer said. \u201cThe war in Ukraine clearly demonstrated the importance of space. We seem to be entering a period in which the ability to access space will become increasingly strategic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While military satellites made up a limited share of Ariane 5 launches, the retired rocket\u2019s final mission in July 2023 lifted the French Syracuse 4B military communications satellite into orbit, as well as Germany\u2019s Heinrich-Hertz-Satellit with a dual civilian-military communications payload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a 27-year career, Ariane 5 placed the military communications systems for the major western European states in orbit: Skynet 5 for the U.K., Syracuse 3 and 4 for France, Sicral-2 for Italy, Secomsat and SpainSat for Spain and Satcom BW for Germany\u2019s Bundeswehr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new rocket has an order book for 30 launches, Caroline Arnoux, head of the Ariane 6 program at Arianespace, said in a press briefing on June 25. After two launches planned for this year, the pace will increase to six in 2025, eight the following year and ten in 2027. About a third of the missions are for government customers, including the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary goal of Ariane 6 is to serve European institutional missions and ensure they can reach space, which is the core reason for public funding of the launcher, according to Lucia Linares, head of space transportation strategy and institutional launches at the European Space Agency. The new rocket will the \u201cEurope\u2019s workhorse for guaranteed access to space,\u201d Linares said at the June 25 briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Ariane 6 launch may initially be in the order of tens of millions of dollars more expensive than a launch by SpaceX of the reusable Falcon 9, according to Wohrer. That probably won\u2019t hold back European armed forces from favoring the domestically-produced rocket, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that the difference in costs will be enough for the military not to buy European launchers,\u201d Wohrer said. \u201cAt what point does it become an unbearable factor? It\u2019s a bit like the cost of security, the cost of ensuring strategic autonomy in terms of access to space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ESA is working on a reusable rocket engine called Prometheus, with ArianeGroup the lead contractor, with the goal of making a \u201cvery low-cost\u201d engine that can be built at one-tenth of the cost of the Vulcain 2 that powered the Ariane 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launching military or dual-use satellites on a foreign rocket risks revealing secrets, and it puts Europe at the mercy of foreign competitors\u2019 prices, as was the case with the EU paying SpaceX a premium for security measures around the launch of Galileo navigation satellites, according to Wohrer. The lack of autonomous launch capacity \u201cis something quite dangerous, quite risky,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">European countries will have to think about bolstering their capabilities to gather intelligence from space if they want to be less reliant on the United States, according to Wohrer. The European parliament has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/RegData\/etudes\/BRIE\/2023\/754598\/EPRS_BRI(2023)754598_EN.pdf\"><u>raised concerns<\/u><\/a> about depending on the U.S. in terms of space security, saying this could contradict the EU\u2019s desire to achieve strategic autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf this is the kind of development we\u2019re heading for, access to space will be absolutely essential,\u201d Wohrer said. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can be a major military power today without access to space. 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