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Arianespace will complete 18 flights for Amazon over a three-year period aboard Ariane 64 rockets.
Arianespace successfully launched the South Korean satellite KOMPSAT-7 for high-resolution Earth observation during mission VV28.
Arianespace successfully launched the KOMPSAT-7 satellite on December 1st, 2025, at 2:21 p.m. local time.
Arianespace plans to double its Ariane 6 launch frequency in 2026, with between six and eight missions scheduled.
Arianespace aims to double its Ariane 6 launch cadence in 2026, with between six and eight missions planned.
Arianespace successfully launched the Sentinel-1D Earth observation satellite aboard an Ariane 62 rocket for the European Commission.
On October 16, Arianespace announced that the inaugural flight of the Ariane 64 will be its first launch of 2026.
Arianespace confirmed that the first flight of the Ariane 6 rocket's most powerful variant, with four boosters, will not launch until 2026.
The CSO-1 and CSO-2 satellites were successfully launched by Arianespace in 2018 and 2020 respectively.
Arianespace planned a second Ariane 6 flight for late 2024 but the launcher’s first commercial mission slipped into early 2025.
Amazon’s Kuiper program contracted up to 83 launches from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, which is characterized as the largest commercial launch deal and could imply launch Capex as high as $6,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 at current market prices.
The European Space Agency and the joint team including ArianeGroup, Arianespace, and the French space agency CNES expect the Ariane 6 inaugural launch to take place in the first two weeks of July.
Arianespace plans the inaugural flight of Ariane 6 in approximately 90 to 100 days, placing the launch in the latter half of June within a European Space Agency launch period that extends through July.
Arianespace will seek to conduct as many Ariane 6 flights as possible in 2025, including the first launches for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation.
Arianespace placed the Intelsat 507 satellite into geostationary orbit in October 1983, marking its first launch for Intelsat nearly 40 years before the IS-45 contract.
Arianespace is working to perform a first launch of the Ariane 6 before the end of 2023.
Arianespace and the European Space Agency will establish an independent commission to investigate the Vega C launch failure on 2022-12-20 that resulted in the loss of two satellites.
Arianespace won a contract in April to launch Sentinel-1C on a Vega C in 2023.
Arianespace is delaying the first commercial flight of Europe’s upgraded Vega C rocket by nearly a month to replace defective equipment.
Arianespace will launch its final three Ariane 5 missions next year, including ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter, and will then transition to the first launch of the Ariane 6.