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Arianespace’s last Vega launch of 2019 will use the first of 10 Vega rockets ordered in 2017.
Arianespace also launches its heavy-lift Ariane 5 and light-lift Vega rockets from the Guiana Space Center.
Arianespace plans to return to launching from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome for OneWeb missions if OneWeb is ready.
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.
The 10 Vega rockets ordered in 2017, a mix of Vega and Vega C, are expected to last Arianespace until 2021 or the beginning of 2022.
The 2018-12-19 mission was the 20th Soyuz rocket to launch from the Guiana Space Center since Arianespace began offering a Europeanized version of the Soyuz rocket.
Arianespace launched six Ariane 5 heavy-lift rockets, three Soyuz medium-lift rockets, and two Vega light-lift rockets in 2018.
Arianespace completed its final launch of the year on 2018-12-19 by sending the French spy satellite CSO-1 into orbit on a Soyuz ST-A rocket.
Arianespace had expected to launch India’s GSAT-31 and Arabsat’s Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGEOsat-1 on an Ariane 5 by the end of 2018.
Arianespace completed 11 launches in 2018, matching its 2017 total but short of the 14 launches it projected for 2018.
Arianespace scheduled a Soyuz mission in the weeks after 2018-12-04 to launch CSO-1, a French military reconnaissance satellite, as its final launch of the year.
Arianespace completed its final Ariane 5 launch of 2018 on 2018-12-04.
Arianespace scheduled GEO-Kompsat-2B to launch about one year after GEO-Kompsat-2A on an Ariane 5.
Airbus Safran Launchers absorbed Arianespace in 2016 and later changed its name to ArianeGroup.
Arianespace launched the Mohammed 6-B satellite for Morocco on 2018-11-20.
ArianeGroup and Arianespace seek a European commitment to buy two or three Vega C launches per year for government missions.
ArianeGroup and Arianespace seek a European commitment to buy five Ariane 6 launches per year for government missions.
On 2018-10-25 ESA adopted a resolution that encourages the prompt conclusion of launch service contracts with Arianespace for European institutional missions planned for the period 2020–2023.
Team Indus’ Z-02 lander is being designed to be compatible with launch vehicles operated by Arianespace, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance.
Arianespace will launch the Metop-C weather satellite on its Europeanized Soyuz from the Guiana Space Center on the schedule set prior to the Russian crewed Soyuz mission.