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Arianespace planned three Vega launches in 2021, including the first launch of the upgraded Vega C.
Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission on November 17.
Arianespace completed its first launch since reopening the Guiana Space Center in Kourou with the 2020-08-15 Ariane 5 mission.
SpaceX and Arianespace announced plans for dedicated small satellite launches at the Small Satellite Conference in 2019.
Arianespace arranged all three of OneWeb’s launches and was under contract to provide 21 Soyuz launches and to carry a batch of 30 OneWeb satellites on the maiden launch of Ariane 6.
OneWeb signed a contract with Arianespace last year for the maiden flight of Ariane 6 with options for two additional Ariane 6 missions.
Arianespace plans to conduct the maiden flight of Ariane 6 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
OneWeb has secured rides to orbit for roughly 720 satellites with Arianespace on 20 Soyuz rockets and the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6 planned for late 2020.
ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
Arianespace’s first launch of 2020 is an Ariane 5 carrying Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite and ISRO’s GSAT-30 geostationary communications spacecraft.
In addition to 20 Soyuz launches, OneWeb agreed to launch 30 satellites on Arianespace's maiden flight of the Ariane 6 in the second half of 2020.
Arianespace planned inaugural launches of Ariane 6 and Vega C in 2020.
GHGSat plans to launch a second satellite later 2019 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.
Arianespace and Avio will launch Vega C for the first time in March 2020, sending Lares-2 into a 6,000-kilometer orbit at an inclination of 75 degrees.
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.
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 won a OneWeb launch contract in 2015 for 21 Soyuz missions and initially planned for most of those missions to take place in Baikonur.
Arianespace has four launches of the light-lift Vega rocket planned for 2019, plus the maiden flight of the next-generation Vega C.
Arianespace completed 11 launches in 2018, matching its 2017 total but short of the 14 launches it projected for 2018.
Attractive pricing from Arianespace convinced Spaceflight Inc. to contract with Arianespace for the first time.