Centre européen pour la construction de lanceurs d'engins spatiaux
Arianespace is a multinational company and a leading commercial launch service provider, marketing and operating launch vehicles like Ariane 5, Soyuz, and Vega, and the upcoming Ariane 6. As a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, it plays a crucial role in providing independent access to space, particularly for European organizations and governments. Arianespace launches missions from the Guiana Space Centre and works with partners like the European Space Agency (ESA) and Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). Key activities include preparing missions, managing customer relations, and offering a wide range of space-based applications, including telecommunications, science, navigation, and Earth observation.
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Avio is seeking to expand its presence in the global launch market and is entering a new phase following its work with Arianespace.
LE-01 is the inaugural mission for Amazon Leo with Arianespace.
Arianespace set a launch window for mission VA267 (LE-01).
Arianespace teams moved four P120C boosters to the pad and installed them on the Ariane 64 launch vehicle.
Avio is transitioning away from Arianespace and is seeking to expand its presence in the global launch market.
Arianespace signed a contract to provide an Ariane 6 launch for Galileo L18, the second pair of second-generation Galileo satellites.
Arianespace and EUSPA signed the Galileo L18 launch contract at the European Space Conference in Brussels on January 27, 2026.
The launch contract for Galileo L18 was signed between Arianespace and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA).
The Arianespace contract was transferred to Avio following the handover of responsibility for the operation of the Vega C rocket.
In early 2024, ESA and the European Union pre-selected Arianespace, Isar Aerospace, PLD Space, Orbex, and Rocket Factory Augsburg to form the initiative’s pool of launch service providers.
The launch of LE-01 will be conducted in collaboration with Arianespace.
In 2025, Arianespace successfully conducted 7 launches with Ariane 6 and Vega-C.
The expected manifest for Arianespace's Ariane 6 launches includes Amazon Leo LE-01 scheduled for February 12, LE-02, LE-03 scheduled for May, MTG-I2 in Q3, MetOpSG-B1 in Q3, LE-04, Galileo L15 in late 2026, and Plato in December or January 2027.
Arianespace is planning 7 or 8 Ariane 6 launches in 2026.
Arianespace will offload Ariane 6 at port, bring it to Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and integrate Amazon Leo payloads with the launch vehicle.
Each Amazon Leo satellite is built at Amazon’s manufacturing facility in Kirkland, Washington and shipped to a processing facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida before traveling to Arianespace launch facilities in French Guiana.
The Arianespace hybrid industrial cargo ship Canopée departed from Bordeaux, France earlier this month transporting Ariane 6 rocket components for Amazon Leo’s first mission.
The Amazon–Arianespace agreement includes multiple launches on the next-generation Ariane 6 rocket.
The mission designated LE-01 is the first of 18 planned launches with Arianespace for Amazon Leo.
Ariane 64 is preparing for its inaugural launch, LE-01, with Arianespace.