Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider.[2] It undertakes the operation and marketing of the Ariane programme.[3] The company offers a number of different launch vehicles: the heavy-lift Ariane 6 for dual launches to geostationary transfer orbit, and the solid-fueled Vega series for lighter payloads.[4]
As of May 2021[update], Arianespace had launched more than 850 satellites[5] in 287 launches over 41 years. The first commercial flight managed by the new entity was Spacenet F1 launched on 23 May 1984. Arianespace uses the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana as its main launch site. It has its headquarters in Évry-Courcouronnes, Essonne, France.[6][7]
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Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. It undertakes the operation and marketing...
retired European heavy-lift space launch vehicle developed and operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was launched from the Centre...
May 2019 Arianespace placed the first production order. Following program delays to 2022 and then 2023, as of August 2023[update], Arianespace has said...
of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Azercosmos) and the commercial company Arianespace conduct launches from Kourou. It was used by the ESA to send supplies...
Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre (also known as Soyuz at CSG or Arianespace Soyuz) was a European Space Agency (ESA) programme for operating Soyuz-ST...
Vega is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace which was jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency...
De Selding has asserted that French government leadership, and the Arianespace consortium "all but invented the commercial launch business in the 1980s"...
19-20-21-22" (PDF). arianespace. December 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2021. "VA244 Galileo FOC-M8 SAT 23-24-25-26" (PDF). arianespace. July 2018. Retrieved...
the company's task is to develop and manufacture the launch vehicles, Arianespace acts as the launch service provider for them. Meanwhile, another subsidiary...
payloads. ELVs are proven technology in widespread use for many decades. Arianespace SA is a French company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial...
2009. Retrieved 17 July 2013. Source: Arianespace (14 February 2002). "Mexican Operator Satmex Has Chosen Arianespace to Launch Its New Satmex 6 Satellite"...
2023. "Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellites". Arianespace (Press release). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022. "Arianespace Ariane...
The main European launch vehicle Ariane 6 will be operated through Arianespace with ESA sharing in the costs of launching and further developing this...
землетрясении (in Russian). BlackSea News. Retrieved 29 March 2011. "Arianespace signs deal to launch Azerbaijani satellite". News.Az. Archived from the...
Retrieved 26 September 2020. "Arianespace launch 195 – Arabsat-5A and COMS: Liftoff is set for 26 June 2010". Arianespace. Retrieved 26 June 2010. "GEO-KOMPSAT-2A...
and posted sales of 339 million Swiss Francs in 2019. As a supplier of Arianespace, Beyond Gravity is also a shareholder, with 0.82% of capital in 2018...
European competitor Arianespace win $390 million worth of Intelsat launches". CNBC. 17 September 2020. "Intelsat entrusts Arianespace for the launch of...
SpaceX also offers custom configuration when requested by the customer. Arianespace launched the first dedicated rideshare mission on the Vega rocket during...