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Something stinks in arianespace. More than usual, I mean: In their latest hot firing test of the upper stage it turns out they never actually started the engine, only 'put the APU through its paces'. Not only that, but there isn't any mention of any kind of test during the period in the official Ariane 6 progress updates. It was scheduled, but then isn't mentioned again. Even worse, it seems like there was some kind of anomaly in another test last year that they haven't found the root cause of yet.

https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-mysterious-ariane-6-upper-stage-hot-fire-test/

It honestly looks like the state of Ariane 6 might be much worse than it seems, and Arianespace is trying to cover it up.

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