Arianespace to ramp up to full Ariane 6 rocket launch rate in 2026

Europe’s Arianespace expects to launch its first Ariane 6 rocket by the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, but it will take until 2026 to ramp up to the full rate of nine to 11 per year, the company’s chief executive said on Wednesday. Arianespace, a rival to Elon Musk’s SpaceX that is majority-owned…