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 scheduled the SSMS Proof of Concept launch for summer 2019 and provided a specific launch date of 2019-09-05.
Arianespace signed OneWeb as the customer for the 2020 maiden flight of Ariane 6, which will use the lighter Ariane 62 configuration with two strap-on boosters.
Arianespace plans to phase out Soyuz in the coming years as Europe’s Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers debut in 2020.
The first LM2100 satellite, SaudiGeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4, launched in February on a European Ariane 5 from Arianespace.
Arianespace completed SES’s first-generation O3b constellation on 2019-04-04 with a Soyuz launch of four satellites.
Arianespace has launched the full O3b constellation since 2013 using Soyuz rockets that carry four satellites per mission.
OHB is building the Heinrich Hertz satellite and arranged a launch contract in 2017 with Arianespace for an Ariane 5 mission in 2021 or 2022.
OneWeb launched the first six satellites of a planned 648-satellite constellation on 2019-02-27 on an Arianespace-operated Soyuz rocket.
Arianespace will use a Soyuz rocket on 2019-04-04 to launch four O3b satellites for SES, expanding the medium Earth orbit O3b system to 20 satellites.
Arianespace’s first Ariane 6 mission will use the 62 version of the rocket with two side boosters.
Arianespace is OneWeb’s principal launch provider and launched OneWeb’s first six satellites on a Soyuz rocket on 2019-02-27.
Arianespace secured OneWeb as a customer for the inaugural Ariane 6 mission and holds options for two additional Ariane 6 missions to support OneWeb’s deployment of 650 to 2,000 satellites.
SES operates 16 O3b broadband satellites in medium Earth orbit and has four more launching on an Arianespace Soyuz 2019-03 plus another seven under construction by Boeing.
Global Xpress 5 is slated to launch late in the year on an Ariane 5 rocket provided by Arianespace with a Ka-band payload from Thales Alenia Space.
OneWeb’s first six satellites are scheduled to launch 2019-02-26 on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
The first six OneWeb satellites are set to launch on an Arianespace Soyuz from French Guiana later 2019-02.
Arianespace completed the first Ariane 5 mission of the year on 2019-02-05, lofting two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.
Arianespace anticipates launching at least 12 times 2019, including five Ariane 5 dual-launch missions each carrying two satellites.
Arianespace’s next launch is a Soyuz mission from French Guiana carrying the first six low-Earth-orbit broadband satellites for OneWeb, tentatively planned for 2019-02-22.
Viasat expects to launch its first ViaSat-3 satellite in 2020 on either a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, an Arianespace Ariane 5, or a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5.