👨‍🚀🚀 3... 2... 1... Liftoff!

Last night, Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, #Ariane6, successfully made its inaugural flight.

Ariane 6 can launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits for applications such as Earth observation, telecommunication, meteorology, science and navigation.

It is a key step towards secure and autonomous 🇪🇺 access to #space.

Congratulations to the teams at European Space Agency, National Centre for Space Studies, Arianespace on this success!

📷© ESA