Kick stage - Astris

Ariane 6 is designed to evolve, to be able to integrate new innovative technologies in order to stay at the thrusting edge of customer service and competitiveness.
The kick stage proposed by ArianeGroup will boost Ariane 6’s versatility even further.
The kick stage is an additional stage positioned on top of Ariane 6’s upper stage, which will allow the rocket to place several satellites into different orbits in a single launch, or to inject a satellite directly into its final orbit, optimizing a wide scope of missions.

[@kimgosseye8588]

Well done Ariane! Looks great, and i'm always happy to see some successful cooperation in EU!

[@nisenobody8273]

Nice

[@theboatgoat]

Very cool!

[@apsdev]

That looks like a carbon version of the old hypergolic EPS stage..

[@thegrapesofwrath2]

And it was called Aetus.. Yes even the name is similar 🙂

[@NotHonkyTonk]

Why did they use the walking dead theme for this? 1:36