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 is owed $238,000,000 by OneWeb as of the 2020-03-27 filing.
OneWeb signed a $1,100,000,000 contract with Arianespace in 2015 for 21 Soyuz launches.
Arianespace launches the Avio-built Vega rocket from the Guiana Space Center.
Vega and Vega C account for four of the 14 planned Arianespace launches from French Guiana in 2020.
Prior to COVID-19 being declared a pandemic, Arianespace aimed to conduct 22 launches in 2020, including 14 from French Guiana.
H3 is intended to compete with launch vehicles such as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Arianespace’s Ariane 6 that can lift upward of 6,500 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.
The hold on Kourou launches has delayed the return to flight of Arianespace’s Vega rocket that had been scheduled for 2020-03-23.
The 2020-03-21 Arianespace launch expanded OneWeb’s constellation to 74 satellites in low Earth orbit.
Arianespace launched 34 small broadband satellites for OneWeb on 2020-03-21.
Arsat signed a contract with Arianespace in 2019 to launch a third satellite on an Ariane 5, but that satellite was never built.
Arianespace suspended all launch campaigns underway at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to fully implement measures decided by the French government.
On 2020-03-10 Arianespace decided to restrict launch attendance to required personnel and was not expecting limitations to launching.
Arianespace launches the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and light-lift Vega rockets exclusively from the Guiana Space Center.
Arianespace had scheduled a 2020-03-24 launch from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
JCSAT-17, one of the first three commercial LM2100 satellites, launched on 2020-02-18 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket operated by Arianespace.
Arianespace completed its third launch of the year on 2025-02-18.
A Soyuz launch provided by Arianespace carrying 34 OneWeb satellites was scheduled to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:42 p.m. EST.
Arianespace is launching the majority of OneWeb’s first-generation constellation using Soyuz rockets from Europe’s Guiana Space Center and Russia’s Baikonur and Vostochny Cosmodromes.
Counting the February launch, OneWeb plans to conduct a total of 17 or 18 Soyuz launches and one Ariane 6 launch with Arianespace to orbit 588 satellites before the end of next year.
Arianespace’s Vega return-to-flight mission was postponed from a scheduled launch last September because of the July 2019 Vega launch failure.