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OneWeb announced on 2020-09-21 that it had a revised contract with Arianespace to permit launches of its satellites on Soyuz rockets to resume in December.
Arianespace and OneWeb executed a revised launch contract on 2020-09-21 that allows OneWeb launches to resume in December using Soyuz rockets.
Arianespace requires receipt of a $9,750,000 deposit before commencing the preparatory work necessary to resume OneWeb’s launch schedule.
A federal bankruptcy court approved a separate motion on 2020-09-15 for an additional $9,950,000 in debtor-in-possession financing to pay a $9,750,000 deposit to Arianespace to resume launch preparations.
OneWeb revised a contract with Arianespace on 2020-09-21 to resume launches using 16 Soyuz rockets over a two-year period starting in December.
Arianespace will conduct 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb, each carrying 34–36 satellites, to complete OneWeb’s internet megaconstellation by the end of 2022.
Arianespace and OneWeb revised their launch contract on 2020-09-21 to cover OneWeb’s constellation deployment with three fewer launches than originally planned.
Arianespace will launch two of Intelsat’s satellites on an Ariane 5 in 2022 and will launch Galaxy-37 on an Ariane 6 in 2023.
Arianespace launched a Vega rocket on 2020-09-02, ending a 14-month hiatus for the vehicle.
The Arianespace Vega VV16 mission placed ION in a Sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 515 km altitude.
On 2020-09-03 at 3:51:10 a.m. CEST, ION SVC LUCAS launched from the Vega Launch Complex in Kourou, French Guiana aboard an Arianespace Vega rocket on the VV16 Small Spacecraft Mission Service Proof of Concept flight.
Arianespace and Avio were ready to launch Vega in June 2020 but upper-level winds delayed the mission into August 2020.
Arianespace’s Vega rocket launch VV16 launched 7 microsatellites and 46 CubeSats into orbit.
Arianespace’s Vega rocket mission VV16 launched 7 microsatellites and 46 CubeSats into orbit.
Arianespace plans regular SSMS missions in the future with the next-generation Vega C, which is expected to launch in 2021.
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.
CNES and Arianespace resumed spaceport activities in French Guiana in May, enabling Ariane 5 and Vega launches from the Guiana Space Center.
Arianespace launched two communications satellites and a satellite servicer on an Ariane 5 rocket on 2020-08-15 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.
Arianespace planned a Vega mission for 2020-09-01 carrying 53 smallsats after that mission experienced delays from upper-level winds earlier in the year.
Arianespace completed its first launch since reopening the Guiana Space Center in Kourou with the 2020-08-15 Ariane 5 mission.