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Arianespace planned three Vega launches in 2021, including the first launch of the upgraded Vega C.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/7/2021Arianespace seeks greater support from European governments

Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission on November 17.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL12/17/2020An Independent Inquiry Commission Releases Their Conclusions Regarding The Arianespace VV17 Mission Loss

Arianespace completed its first launch since reopening the Guiana Space Center in Kourou with the 2020-08-15 Ariane 5 mission.

NARRATIVE GENERAL8/15/2020Arianespace lofts three spacecraft in first Ariane 5 launch since start of pandemic

SpaceX and Arianespace announced plans for dedicated small satellite launches at the Small Satellite Conference in 2019.

NARRATIVE GROWTH8/4/2020Benchmark to provide propulsion for Spaceflight’s Sherpa-NG

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL4/20/2020OneWeb falls back to Earth

OneWeb signed a contract with Arianespace last year for the maiden flight of Ariane 6 with options for two additional Ariane 6 missions.

NARRATIVE GENERAL3/27/2020OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Arianespace plans to conduct the maiden flight of Ariane 6 in the fourth quarter of 2020.

NARRATIVE GENERAL2/5/2020Ariane 6 launch site gets ready • BulgariaSat-1 capacity sales at 15% • U.K. to study MEV-1 docking

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/27/2020OneWeb, U.S. senator, urge FCC to act on 2018 request for 1,260 more satellites

ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/7/2020ESA selects Arianespace for Euclid dark universe probe launch

Arianespace’s first launch of 2020 is an Ariane 5 carrying Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite and ISRO’s GSAT-30 geostationary communications spacecraft.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/7/2020Arianespace could launch record 22 missions in 2020

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL11/8/2019OneWeb’s first big deployment launch slips to January

Arianespace planned inaugural launches of Ariane 6 and Vega C in 2020.

NARRATIVE GENERAL9/9/2019Arianespace reveals manifest, notes launch market variety

GHGSat plans to launch a second satellite later 2019 on an Arianespace Vega rocket.

NARRATIVE GROWTH8/21/2019GHGSat, Canadian Foundation plan emissions monitoring campaign

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/10/2019Avio gets ESA assurance for transition missions from Vega to Vega C

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL4/18/2019ArianeGroup starting Ariane 6 production after new ESA agreement

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.

NARRATIVE GROWTH2/4/2019GEO satellite orders continued to underwhelm in 2018

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.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/15/2019Arianespace targets 12 launches this year, more counting OneWeb, Vega C debut

Arianespace has four launches of the light-lift Vega rocket planned for 2019, plus the maiden flight of the next-generation Vega C.

NARRATIVE GENERAL1/15/2019Arianespace targets 12 launches this year, more counting OneWeb, Vega C debut

Arianespace completed 11 launches in 2018, matching its 2017 total but short of the 14 launches it projected for 2018.

NARRATIVE GENERAL12/19/2018Arianespace, in final mission of 2018, launches French spy satellite

Attractive pricing from Arianespace convinced Spaceflight Inc. to contract with Arianespace for the first time.

NARRATIVE GENERAL8/8/2018Vega’s long-awaited (small) successes
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