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 plans to conduct the maiden flight of Ariane 6 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
OneWeb has secured rides to orbit for roughly 720 satellites with Arianespace on 20 Soyuz rockets and the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6 planned for late 2020.
Arianespace’s first Ariane 6 mission will launch 30 small broadband satellites for OneWeb during the fourth quarter of 2020.
Arianespace completed a launch on 2020-01-16 that sent two communications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
The Falcon Eye 2 mission will be Arianespace’s first Soyuz launch of the year and will take place from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana.
Of Arianespace’s planned 22 missions in 2020, 14 are planned from the Guiana Space Center on the coast of South America.
ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
Arianespace launched eight geostationary satellites in 2019.
Arianespace’s first launch of 2020 is an Ariane 5 carrying Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite and ISRO’s GSAT-30 geostationary communications spacecraft.
Arianespace has five Ariane 5 missions planned for 2020.
Arianespace expects 2019 revenue to be lower than 2018 after completing nine launches in 2019.
Arianespace completed nine missions in 2019, down from a target of 12 due to delays with an Ariane 5 mission and two Vega launches postponed after a July Vega failure.
ANGELS launched on an Arianespace Soyuz on 2019-12-18 as one of three cubesats on the mission.
D-Orbit plans to demonstrate its InOrbit Now (ION) rideshare service in March 2020 when an ION cubesat carrier is scheduled to launch on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
The 2019-12-18 launch marked the 23rd Soyuz mission for Arianespace from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
ClearSpace-1 is slated to launch in 2025 to capture and deorbit a 100-kilogram Vespa payload adapter left in orbit by an Arianespace Vega after deploying ESA’s Proba-V satellite.
Measat selected Arianespace to launch its next satellite, Measat-3d, on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Arianespace scheduled a Soyuz mission for 2019-12-17 carrying the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed second-generation radar satellite, the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS telescope, and three smallsat secondary payloads.
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket launched on 2019-11-26 from the Guiana Space Center at 4:23 p.m. Eastern carrying Egypt’s TIBA-1 satellite and Inmarsat’s GX-5 satellite.
Arianespace launched three satellites for NileSat between 1998 and 2010.