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Ariane 6 user's manual [pdf]
- _bernd 7mo agoI will definitely start to read this out loud to my 5 year old. He will love it. Thanks for sharing your finding.
- goku12 7mo agoJust FYI. Almost every launcher that offers commercial services has such a user manual. I was involved in preparing one such manual. A collection of these manuals can be quite entertaining for 5 year olds. You should be able to easily find them from the websites of the respective companies or agencies.
- kevin_thibedeau 7mo agoHave an LLM rewrite it in Seussian verse.
- hliyan 7mo agoI think the Spacecraft Interfaces section (starting page 84) is the bit that might interest HN readers. It describes (to potential customers) the dimensions of the payload bay, electrical and comms interfaces available, conditions the payload must be able to tolerate (vibration, temperature etc).
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoIs there any sign of political pressure in Europe around its space programme? Or is it going to be stuck in Ariane space for another generation?
- gostsamo 7mo agoThe issue is that Europe does not have the market for a reusable rocket and though there are a few initiatives for creating one, the current policy is for maintaining launch capability for only a few satellites yearly. If the EU decides to make One Web truly massive, things might change.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> issue is that Europe does not have the market for a reusable rocket SpaceX launched more European payloads in 2025 than European launch providers did. > the current policy is for maintaining launch capability for only a few satellites yearly The current policy is for throwing employment money at Arianespace. It's the situation America would have been if we were still stuck with ULA.
- gostsamo 7mo agoWere those payloads enough to pay for a second SpaceX though? And could such a company compete on price with SpaceX if it is created? TBH, Musk made his space market, but the only one capable of creating EuroSpace is Trump.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo ago> Were those payloads enough to pay for a second SpaceX though? Today, probably not. When SpaceX announced "Falcon 5 and Falcon 9" as "the world’s first launch vehicles where all stages are designed for reuse" [1], the world was launching 55 payloads a year globally [2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080815163222/http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=18 https://web.archive.org/web/20080815163222/http://www.spacex... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_in_spaceflight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_in_spaceflight
- jsrcout 7mo agoDocs like this make playing space engineer so much more fun.
- Guestmodinfo 7mo agoThis is going to be in the Reading list before sleep for Sweet engineering dreams
- mngnt 7mo agoAbout the cover picture: at that altitude, shouldn't the plume look completelu different? Com to think of it, shouldn't the first stage and srbs be long gone?