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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Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate delivered 34 additional OneWeb satellites into orbit on Soyuz Flight ST28 on 2020-03-21.
Arianespace’s backlog of payloads remaining to be launched for Airbus Defence and Space, excluding remaining OneWeb satellites, counts 21 additional payloads.
OneWeb is slated to launch 36 more satellites on 2021-03-25 on an Arianespace-provided Soyuz launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome.
With Vega C, Arianespace will offer enhanced performance and greater payload volume for future customers at the same price as launches by Vega.
Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace, and Giulio Ranzo, CEO of Avio, signed the Vega C batch agreement on 2021-03-19.
The agreement between Arianespace and Avio was signed in Rome on 2021-03-19.
In 2021 Arianespace was contracted for launch services for the next nine Copernicus satellites within the European Commission’s Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027.
In December 2020, Arianespace and its partners delivered an additional 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit on the first commercial flight operated from Vostochny Cosmodrome.
In February and March 2020, Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate launched 68 OneWeb satellites from Baikonur Cosmodrome on two Soyuz flights.
Arianespace plans a Soyuz launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome on 2021-03-25 to deliver 36 satellites into orbit.
Arianespace Flight VA243 in September 2018 launched the Horizons 3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellites.
Arianespace has a successful launch record and solves quality issues immediately when they arise.
Arianespace planned three Vega launches in 2021, including the first launch of the upgraded Vega C.
Arianespace currently expects to perform three Ariane 5 launches in 2021, two carrying commercial satellites and one carrying NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
The European Union awarded a December contract valued at 7,100,000 EUR to a consortium of nine companies, including Arianespace, for initial studies of a proposed low Earth orbit satellite system.
The European Commission planned a bulk procurement of Ariane 6 and Vega C vehicles during the 2021–27 budget to fulfill Galileo and Copernicus missions.
Arianespace completed 2020 with revenues of about one billion euros, approximately the same as 2019.
In 2020 Arianespace used Soyuz from three facilities: the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia.
Arianespace orbited CSO-1 on a Soyuz mission in December 2018 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
CSO-2 was the 130th Airbus Defence and Space-built satellite launched by Arianespace.