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Reaching 588 satellites is expected to require 17 or 18 more Soyuz launches plus one Ariane 6 mission.
Counting the February launch, OneWeb plans to conduct a total of 17 or 18 Soyuz launches and one Ariane 6 launch with Arianespace to orbit 588 satellites before the end of next year.
Arianespace plans to conduct the maiden flight of Ariane 6 in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Eutelsat-7C was built by Maxar and launched in June on an Ariane 5 rocket.
The European Space Agency is financing 89% of Ariane 6’s 3.6-billion-euro development cost, with industry providing the remainder.
The first of the 2017-ordered Ariane 62 launches slipped to 2021 due to a disagreement between ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency that delayed the start of serial production until April 2019.
At least half of ArianeGroup’s transition batch of 14 Ariane 6 rockets are dedicated to European government customers, including six for the European Commission’s Galileo satellites and one for the French military’s Composante Spatiale Optique-3 imaging satellite.
ArianeGroup is building 15 Ariane 6 rockets: one for the rocket’s maiden flight and 14 in bulk to cover the 2020 to 2023 transition away from the Ariane 5.
Arianespace’s first Ariane 6 mission will launch 30 small broadband satellites for OneWeb during the fourth quarter of 2020.
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank Group provided a 100,000,000 EUR loan to ArianeGroup on 2020-01-21 to help finance Ariane 6 development.
One hundred million euros of the funding will be provided as a loan to ArianeGroup to help pay for its share of the costs of developing the Ariane 6 rocket.
The European Union will provide 200,000,000 EUR to support Europe’s space industry in the form of a loan to help fund development of the Ariane 6 and investment in space startups.
The loan to ArianeGroup will help finance facilities in France and Germany that will be used to produce and launch the Ariane 6 rocket.
JUICE is expected to reach Jupiter in 2029 regardless of whether it launches on Ariane 5 or Ariane 6.
Arianespace completed nine missions in 2019, down from a target of 12 due to delays with an Ariane 5 mission and two Vega launches postponed after a July Vega failure.
Arianespace has five Ariane 5 missions planned for 2020.
ESA selected Arianespace to launch the JUpiter ICy moon Explorer (JUICE) aboard the Ariane 64, the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6.
The Ariane 5 mission carrying Konnect and GSAT-30 slipped from 2019 into January 2020 due to a mixture of spacecraft and launcher delays.
The Ariane 6 program has a budget of 3,600,000,000 EUR and is planned to succeed the Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket while costing around half as much to produce.
The 2,240,000,000 EUR for space transportation covers upgrades for the Ariane 6 and Vega C vehicles, support for small launch vehicle development, and funds the Italian-led Space Rider reusable spacecraft program.