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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In addition to 20 Soyuz launches, OneWeb agreed to launch 30 satellites on Arianespace's maiden flight of the Ariane 6 in the second half of 2020.
Arianespace tests on recent Ariane 5 launches confirmed higher residual pressure within the payload fairing than the James Webb Space Telescope sunshield was designed for.
Arianespace's planned 2023 rideshare mission with Ariane 6 can deliver 8,500 kg into a lunar transfer orbit.
From 2008 to 2014, Arianespace launched five European Automated Transfer Vehicles to the International Space Station using Ariane 5 rockets.
Arianespace has a rideshare mission to geosynchronous orbit using the Ariane 64 scheduled for 2022.
Arianespace plans to introduce the Ariane 6 and Vega C rockets, which the company views as better adapted to institutional needs than Ariane 5 and Vega.
A customer choosing to remain unnamed selected Ariane 5 for a 2021 flight through Arianespace.
Arianespace signed contracts in 2019 to fly auxiliary payloads on Soyuz for Open Cosmos and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israel stated that orders for geostationary satellites are beginning to rebound in 2019.
Arianespace planned inaugural launches of Ariane 6 and Vega C in 2020.
Arianespace planned corrective actions with Vega manufacturer Avio to return Vega to flight during the first quarter of 2020 after the July 2019 launch failure.
Arianespace conducted seven launches in 2019 and planned to launch as many as four additional satellites on Ariane 5 and Soyuz that year.
Arianespace could not offer SES launch capacity in 2021 for the SES mPOWER medium Earth orbit satellites because of its full manifest.
Arianespace had eight missions on the Ariane 6 manifest and 11 missions planned for Ariane 5 in 2019.
Arianespace subsidiary Starsem was scheduled to perform OneWeb’s second launch in November or December 2019 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Arianespace plans to return the Vega light-lift rocket to flight by the end of March after corrective actions are taken to prevent a repeat of the 2019-07-10 launch failure.
A European Space Agency and Arianespace-led commission isolated the Vega failure to the rocket’s Zefiro-23 second stage but had not pinpointed a precise cause in its preliminary findings issued 2019-09-05.
Arianespace plans to return Vega to flight between January and the end of March, a schedule that pushes the planned 2019 launches of the UAE’s Falcon Eye-2 satellite and a dedicated rideshare mission carrying 42 tiny satellites into 2020.
Astrocast scheduled another 10 satellites to launch at the end of 2020 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
Arianespace launched Sky Perfect JSAT’s first high-throughput satellite Horizons-3e on an Ariane 5 rocket in 2017.