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Several prospects exist for the first commercial launch of the Ariane 64, which is planned for 2021.
ESA has a ceiling on how much funding it will provide to support the first Ariane 64 mission.
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.
ESA and ArianeGroup plan 14 Ariane 6 missions during the Ariane 5-to-Ariane 6 transition scheduled from 2020 to 2023.
The JUICE mission is scheduled to launch in 2022 on an Ariane 5.
ArianeGroup projects that an Ariane 6 rocket takes around two years to build.
ESA wants Ariane 64 to be an option for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission but will consider launching JUICE on Ariane 64 only after a commercial Ariane 64 launch has occurred.
ArianeGroup is contracted by the European Space Agency to design and build the Ariane 6 rocket.
Arianespace plans to phase out Soyuz in the coming years as Europe’s Ariane 6 and Vega C launchers debut in 2020.
The first LM2100 satellite, SaudiGeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4, launched in February on a European Ariane 5 from Arianespace.
SGDC-1 launched in May 2017 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
OHB is building the Heinrich Hertz satellite and arranged a launch contract in 2017 with Arianespace for an Ariane 5 mission in 2021 or 2022.
The Ariane 6 mission will deliver the satellites into a near-polar orbit at 500 km.
Cour des comptes concluded that Ariane 6 will need to evolve, which will require decisions to be taken at European level.
Arianespace secured OneWeb as a customer for the inaugural Ariane 6 mission and holds options for two additional Ariane 6 missions to support OneWeb’s deployment of 650 to 2,000 satellites.
The European Space Agency and the German space agency DLR opened a 50,000,000 EUR engine test facility in Lampoldshausen, Germany to support Ariane 6 development.
Global Xpress 5 is slated to launch late in the year on an Ariane 5 rocket provided by Arianespace with a Ka-band payload from Thales Alenia Space.
OneWeb will fly satellites on the inaugural flight of Ariane 6 using the Ariane 62 configuration with two strap-on boosters, with that mission scheduled for 2020.
Eutelsat is preparing for the launch of a dedicated Konnect satellite being built by Thales Alenia Space for a launch on an Ariane 5 rocket in the second half of 2019.
Arianespace completed the first Ariane 5 mission of the year on 2019-02-05, lofting two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.