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 debuted improvements to the Ariane 5 to support a maximum of 10,200 kg of payload to geostationary transfer orbit, an 85-kilogram increase.
The first two of the 12 Batch 3 Galileo first-generation satellites are expected to launch on an Arianespace Soyuz in 2021.
SpaceX and Arianespace announced plans for dedicated small satellite launches at the Small Satellite Conference in 2019.
Eumetsat signed a contract with Arianespace in 2015 to launch two or three Meteosat Third Generation satellites on Ariane 5 rockets between 2019 and 2023.
Arianespace performed two Ariane 5 launches early in 2020 that carried either commercial communications satellites or government satellites whose launches were commercially competed.
Arianespace planned to resume Ariane 5 launches in late July 2020 with satellites for Intelsat and B-SAT.
Arianespace postponed a Vega launch carrying 53 smallsats until at least 2020-08-17 due to exceptionally unfavorable upper-level winds that scrubbed previous launch attempts in June.
Relativity Space expects that Terran 1’s payload capacity and the new Vandenberg launch site could allow it to win polar and sun-synchronous launch business that had been going to India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and Arianespace’s Vega.
Viasat has signed launch contracts with Arianespace, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance to cover all three ViaSat‑3 satellites but has not assigned which provider will launch which spacecraft.
Arianespace had hoped to launch Ariane 6 between October and December 2020.
Arianespace forecast Ariane 6 would debut between October and December 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic led to widespread shutdowns.
GHGSat, a Montreal-based firm monitoring greenhouse gases via satellite, was unable to launch its second satellite as planned on 2020-03-23 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
Arianespace had 14 missions planned from the Guiana Space Centre in 2020, two of which were completed prior to the spaceport’s closure.
Arianespace arranged all three of OneWeb’s launches and was under contract to provide 21 Soyuz launches and to carry a batch of 30 OneWeb satellites on the maiden launch of Ariane 6.
Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket launches exclusively from the Guiana Space Center, which is operated by the French space agency CNES.
Exolaunch has provided Exopod deployers for cubesats launched on Rocket Lab Electron and Arianespace Soyuz rockets.
OneWeb brought its primary Ku- and Ka-band spectrum into use with the International Telecommunication Union and passed the ITU’s 10% milestone after launching 34 satellites on an Arianespace Soyuz days before filing for bankruptcy.
Arianespace uses Russian-built Soyuz-2 rockets for satellite launches.
Arianespace completed three of a planned 21 Soyuz launches for OneWeb under a $1,100,000,000 contract.
OneWeb signed a contract with Arianespace last year for the maiden flight of Ariane 6 with options for two additional Ariane 6 missions.