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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ArianeGroup oversees the entire Ariane 5 industrial supply chain and delivers a flight-ready vehicle on the launch pad to its subsidiary Arianespace.
Arianespace’s tenth launch of 2021 used the seventh Soyuz rocket launched that year and carried a total payload of approximately 5,797 kg.
Seven of the 10 launch missions Arianespace performed so far 2021 have been for OneWeb.
Arianespace conducted the Soyuz launch that delivered 36 OneWeb satellites from Russia.
OneWeb has an agreement with Arianespace for eight more Soyuz launches before the end of 2022 to deploy the remaining satellites in its constellation.
OneWeb is deploying its initial satellite constellation using Soyuz rockets under a contract with Arianespace.
Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate performed Flight ST36 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on 2021-10-14, at 6:40 p.m. local time (09:40 a.m. UTC).
NewSpace India Limited entrusted Arianespace with the launch of the GSAT-24 telecommunications satellite on 2021-09-28.
Arianespace’s partnership with India and the Indian Space Research Organization began in 1981 with the APPLE satellite launched on an Ariane 1.
The Tata Sky satellite will be owned and operated by NSIL, and NSIL will serve as the intermediary agency between ISRO, Arianespace, and Tata Sky.
Arianespace will deliver Skyloom’s Node-1 on the Ariane 64 as part of a new rideshare mission product.
Skyloom selected the Ariane 64 operated by Arianespace to deploy the company’s first geostationary laser communications relay node, Node-1.
Arianespace launched 34 additional satellites for OneWeb on September 14, increasing OneWeb's network to 322 satellites out of a planned 648 for the initial constellation.
Arianespace passed the milestone of launching more than 1,000 satellites to space with this mission.
Arianespace plans to perform nine more Soyuz launches for OneWeb to deploy the remaining satellites in the constellation before the end of 2022.
The SES-17 satellite is being prepared for a 2021-09-22 flight to the Arianespace launch site in French Guiana.
Arianespace launched 34 OneWeb satellites on a Soyuz rocket on 2021-09-14 at 2:07 p.m. Eastern from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Arianespace projects about 15 to 17 GEO satellites will be ordered each year going forward.
NASA, the European Space Agency, and Arianespace selected 2021-09-08 as the formal targeted launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Arianespace markets and operates the Ariane 5 launcher from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou.