Paris (ESA) Oct 19, 2022
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The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts for the first time a fully assembled example of ESA's new heavy-lift rocket, following the addition of an upper composite to the core stage and four boosters already in place. The upper composite - consisting of two half-fairings and a payload mock-up with the structural adapter needed to join it to the core stage - made th