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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.
Arianespace is scheduled to launch Galaxy-30 in 2020 on an Ariane 5 with Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 2.
Eutelsat signed a multi-launch agreement that Arianespace counts collectively as five Ariane 6 missions, with some flexibility to use Ariane 5.
OneWeb’s first six satellites were scheduled to launch 2019-02-19 from French Guiana on an Arianespace-operated Soyuz.
Arianespace is launching the roughly 150-kilogram OneWeb satellites directly to a 1,200-kilometer operating orbit.
The six OneWeb satellites shipped to French Guiana are scheduled to launch on 2019-02-19 on an Arianespace-operated Soyuz rocket.
Of the 14 Ariane 6 rockets Arianespace plans to buy, Paris-based Eutelsat assigned five satellites to Ariane 6 missions.
Arianespace had planned to sign a manufacturing contract with ArianeGroup in the second half of 2018 to begin production beyond the first Ariane 6 rocket.
Arianespace requires European governmental organizations to purchase at least four additional Ariane 6 missions for the 2020–2023 time frame before signing a manufacturing contract for the first 14 Ariane 6 rockets.
Arianespace is relying on government demand to ensure a stable production rate for Ariane 6 to achieve a cost target 40 to 50 percent below the cost of Ariane 5.
Arianespace plans to purchase 14 Ariane 6 rockets and expects to allocate seven of those to institutional missions and seven to commercial missions.
ESA is working to switch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission from Ariane 5 to Ariane 6 to add a fourth institutional mission to Arianespace’s Ariane 6 backlog.
Arianespace hopes to secure seven institutional orders for Ariane 6 before contracting ArianeGroup to produce 14 Ariane 6 rockets.
Arianespace anticipates four of Eutelsat’s five assigned satellites will launch on Ariane 6 and one will launch on Ariane 5.
Arianespace plans to return to launching from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome for OneWeb missions if OneWeb is ready.
Arianespace also launches its heavy-lift Ariane 5 and light-lift Vega rockets from the Guiana Space Center.
Arianespace won a OneWeb launch contract in 2015 for 21 Soyuz missions and initially planned for most of those missions to take place in Baikonur.
Those three Arianespace Soyuz launches in 2019 will take place from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
Arianespace’s last Vega launch of 2019 will use the first of 10 Vega rockets ordered in 2017.
The three missions that did not take place in 2018—the Arabsat-ISRO Ariane 5, OneWeb’s first Soyuz, and the Italian Space Agency’s Vega launch of Prisma—are on Arianespace’s 2019 manifest.