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Arianespace is scheduled to launch Galaxy-30 in 2020 on an Ariane 5 with Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 2.
Eutelsat signed a multi-launch agreement that Arianespace counts collectively as five Ariane 6 missions, with some flexibility to use Ariane 5.
ArianeGroup and PTScientists received a contract from ESA on 2019-01-21 to study a proposed lander mission to mine lunar regolith and demonstrate resource extraction viability.
The European Space Agency awarded a one-year study contract to a consortium that includes ArianeGroup and PTScientists to study a lunar lander mission concept to mine lunar regolith.
ArianeGroup received the one-year contract from ESA on 2019-01-21 to study a lunar lander mission proposal that would launch by 2025.
Arianespace plans to purchase 14 Ariane 6 rockets and expects to allocate seven of those to institutional missions and seven to commercial missions.
Arianespace hopes to secure seven institutional orders for Ariane 6 before contracting ArianeGroup to produce 14 Ariane 6 rockets.
Of the 14 Ariane 6 rockets Arianespace plans to buy, Paris-based Eutelsat assigned five satellites to Ariane 6 missions.
ESA is working to switch the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission from Ariane 5 to Ariane 6 to add a fourth institutional mission to Arianespace’s Ariane 6 backlog.
Arianespace requires European governmental organizations to purchase at least four additional Ariane 6 missions for the 2020–2023 time frame before signing a manufacturing contract for the first 14 Ariane 6 rockets.
The European Space Agency tasked ArianeGroup with designing and building the Ariane 6 launcher.
Arianespace is relying on government demand to ensure a stable production rate for Ariane 6 to achieve a cost target 40 to 50 percent below the cost of Ariane 5.
Arianespace had planned to sign a manufacturing contract with ArianeGroup in the second half of 2018 to begin production beyond the first Ariane 6 rocket.
Arianespace anticipates four of Eutelsat’s five assigned satellites will launch on Ariane 6 and one will launch on Ariane 5.
Closure of the critical design review process for Ariane 6 is expected to wrap up by mid-2019, after which the Ariane 6 maiden flight is expected to be announced.
Daniel Neuenschwander will request funding to prepare technological building blocks such as advanced propulsion systems and upper stages so ESA can decide at the 2022 ministerial whether Ariane 6 and Vega C can continue with upgrades or require a more radical approach by the 2030 horizon.
Eutelsat ordered the launch of five satellites on Ariane 6 with launches planned by 2027.
Avio is borrowing 10,000,000 EUR from the European Investment Bank to support new space propulsion technologies for Europe’s next-generation Vega C and Ariane 6 launchers.
The three missions that did not take place in 2018—the Arabsat-ISRO Ariane 5, OneWeb’s first Soyuz, and the Italian Space Agency’s Vega launch of Prisma—are on Arianespace’s 2019 manifest.
All five Ariane 5 missions planned for 2019 will carry two satellites each.