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Vega C successfully completed its inaugural flight on 2022-07-13 and has entered an operational phase under the responsibility of Arianespace.
Arianespace plans to deploy Spaceflight’s Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles from Vega rockets.
OneWeb used the Indian GSLV 2022-03-03 rocket for the first time after previously using Arianespace and Soyuz rockets.
OneWeb used the Indian GSLV 2022-03-03 rocket for the first time on this launch after previously using Arianespace and Soyuz rockets.
Pléiades Neo 5 and Pléiades Neo 6 are scheduled to launch at the end of November on the first commercial mission of the Vega C rocket operated by Arianespace.
Arianespace completed the Vega C maiden flight in July, deploying an Italian physics satellite and six cubesats.
Arianespace scheduled its next launch for 2022-07-07 to perform the maiden flight of Vega C, the successor to Europe’s small launch vehicle Vega.
Arianespace expects to deploy satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation constellation with Ariane 6 in the mission that follows its inaugural launch.
Arianespace won a contract from the European Space Agency to launch Sentinel-1C in the first half of 2023 and the terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Amazon is purchasing up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance to deploy most of its 3,236-satellite Project Kuiper, in contracts worth several billion dollars.
Arianespace plans to launch the rest of OneWeb’s constellation in 2022 to enable OneWeb to provide global services.
Arianespace reported revenue of 1,250,000,000 EUR in 2021, a 30% increase over 2020.
Arianespace secured a contract to launch two small Earth science satellites for the Italian Space Agency on Vega launches between 2022 and 2024.
Arianespace planned up to two additional Vega C launches later in 2022 following the maiden flight.
Arianespace completed 15 launch missions in 2021, a 50% increase over its 2020 launch cadence.
Arianespace secured a contract with Australian operator SingTel Optus to launch the Optus-11 communications satellite on Ariane 6 in 2023.
Vega made its maiden flight in 2012 and the 2021-08-16 mission will be the 19th Vega launch by Arianespace.
Arianespace first deployed the SSMS rideshare service in September 2020.
OneWeb is Arianespace’s most important customer and has a contract worth more than $1,000,000,000 with Arianespace to launch its satellite constellation.
In December 2020, Arianespace and its partners delivered an additional 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit on the first commercial flight operated from Vostochny Cosmodrome.