That's a good question, it's the French for Ariadne from Ancient Greek mythology. She delivered Theseus with a thread to come back home safely. Ariane launchers are the reliable thread linking Europe to space. 
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There's often an Ancient Greek/Roman mythology story underneath most of our products' names, for instance, do you know the name of our next engine?
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Is it the Vulcain 2.1?
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Vulcain 2.1 has an ancient roman mythology component indeed, it was the Roman God of fire, volcanoes, and metalworking.
But we were thinking about the latest born.
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We mean a project that will fly sooner than Prometheus.
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There you go! Well done Ruby. They adapted the Vinci to their shuttle needs.
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Yes, we do. We just reposted their work as we believe future engineers need support.
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