Coverage will start 20 minutes before engine ignition at 20:10 CET (19:10 CET, 15:10 local time in Kourou, French Guiana) and continue five minutes after core stage operation, once the engine burns through all its propellant.

For this rehearsal, the boosters will not be ignited, so Ariane 6 will stay firmly on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

The eight-minute engine-fire trial reenacts how the Ariane 6 core stage will fire during a normal flight into space. The trial, conducted with a test model on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport will be the longest ‘full-stack' run yet for Ariane 6’s lower liquid propulsion module equipped with a Vulcain 2.1 engine.