Overview
- The VA267 mission is scheduled to lift off from Kourou on Thursday within a 17:45–18:13 CET window, with an Arianespace livestream planned.
- Adding four solid rocket boosters raises the launcher’s payload capability from 10.3 tonnes to 21.6 tonnes to low Earth orbit.
- The flight will deploy 32 satellites for Amazon’s broadband constellation and is the first of 18 Ariane 6 launches the company has booked.
- This marks the inaugural real‑flight validation of the Ariane 64 variant after multiple successful missions of the two‑booster version.
- Thirteen ESA member states contribute to the Ariane 6 program with more than 600 subcontractors, with upper stages assembled in Bremen and the main stage in Les Mureaux.