Arianespace

Arianespace
Company typeLaunch service provider
IndustryAerospace
FoundedMarch 26, 1980 (March 26, 1980)
Headquarters,
ServicesRocket Launches
RevenueIncrease 1.433 billion (2015)
Increase 4 million (2015)
Number of employees
220 (2023)[1]
ParentArianeGroup
Websitearianespace.com

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, 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]

  1. ^ About Us
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jaeger1986 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ "Service & Solutions". arianespace.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  5. ^ "Arianespace Company profile". Arianespace. May 5, 2021. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
  6. ^ "Russians, French sign space contract.(UPI Science Report)." United Press International. 12 April 2005. Retrieved on 24 September 2009.
  7. ^ "Contact Us". Arianespace. Retrieved 11 June 2020.

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