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The European Space Agency is funding the majority of Ariane 6’s development.
Arianespace forecast Ariane 6 would debut between October and December 2020 before the coronavirus pandemic led to widespread shutdowns.
ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency have not provided a new launch date for Ariane 6.
Supplier delays and a postponed engine test are making a 2020 launch of Ariane 6 more difficult.
If delayed, Ariane 6 would join United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket and Blue Origin’s New Glenn in encountering setbacks that pushed their maiden flights to 2021 instead of 2020.
Arianespace had hoped to launch Ariane 6 between October and December 2020.
Intelsat’s Galaxy-30 satellite was scheduled to launch in summer 2020 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
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.
MEV-2 was scheduled to launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket in the coming months but may experience delays because of the coronavirus pandemic.
OneWeb signed a contract with Arianespace last year for the maiden flight of Ariane 6 with options for two additional Ariane 6 missions.
ArianeGroup is building the Ariane 6 heavy-lift launcher to replace Ariane 5.
Avio expects to receive the second tranche of the Ariane 6 booster production order either in 2020 or 2021.
ArianeGroup’s GEOTracker telescope network can monitor objects in geostationary and medium Earth orbits.
ArianeGroup added a seventh GEOTracker site in Germany near Munich in 2019.
Three of OneWeb’s planned missions for 2020—two Soyuz launches and the maiden Ariane 6 flight—are planned from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.
Each of Arsat-1 and Arsat-2 weighed roughly 3,000 kg and launched on Ariane 5 rockets in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
The SES-17 geostationary satellite ordered from Thales Alenia Space is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Ariane 6 is designed to cost 40% to 50% less than Ariane 5.
JCSAT-17, one of the first three commercial LM2100 satellites, launched on 2020-02-18 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket operated by Arianespace.
GEO-KOMPSAT-2B is the second satellite in a two-satellite environmental program following GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, which monitors meteorological and space weather and launched on an Ariane 5 in December 2018.