Ariane 6 is the next rocket in a long history of launchers to fly from europe’s spaceport in french guiana †demonstrating the power of multinational cooperation for over five decades. Ariane, family of launch vehicles developed as a means of independent access to space for the european space agency (esa) and as a launcher for commercial payloads. [aêjan]) is a series of european civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.