Company profile

Using space for a better life on earth

Arianespace provides guaranteed launch solutions for all types of satellites, whether institutional or commercial, to all orbits. The company was founded in 1980 with the following responsibilities:

• An assigned mission of guaranteeing independent access to space for Europe.
• A goal of being a leader in commercial space transport.
• Arianespace orbits satellites for all types of space-based applications: telecommunications, navigation, science, Earth observation, technology demonstrations, etc.

Three launch solutions

Ariane 5, the heavy launcher

• The global benchmark for launches to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
• 91 launches, including 77 successful launches in a row since 2003.

Soyuz, the medium launcher

• Versatile, and especially well suited to the deployment of constellations.
• 16 launches from the Guiana Space Center since 2011, and 26 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, via Starsem (41 successful missions).

Vega, the light launcher

• Ideally suited for the launch of Sun-synchronous Earth observation satellites.
• 9 launches, all successful, since being introduced in 2012.

Launch sites

• Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana, near the equator in South America, for all three launchers.
• Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, for Soyuz, via Starsem.

The global benchmark in launch services

• More than 550 satellites orbited since the outset (over half of all telecom satellites now in service worldwide).
• Order book worth 5 billion euros for 52 launches and 30 customers:
  • 19 Ariane 5 launches, including 4 dedicated missions and 15 missions to launch 30 satellites into GTO,
  • 26 Soyuz launches,
  • 07 Vega launches.
• 2016 operational record: 11 launches, including 7 by Ariane 5, 2 by Soyuz, and 2 by Vega.

Multidisciplinary skills and expertise, global presence

More than 300 employees dedicated to customer service, at facilities in:

• France, at company headquarters in Evry, near Paris
• South America: the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana
• United States: Washington, C.
• Japan: Tokyo
• Singapore

Repartition of Arianespace capital

Arianespace is a subsidiary of ArianeGroup, which holds 74% of its share capital; the balance is held by 18 other shareholders from the European launcher industry.

	Belgium	3.36 %
	S.A.B.C.A. SA (Sté Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques)	2.71
	Thales Alenia Space Belgium	0.33
	Safran Aero Boosters	0.32
	Denmark	n.s.
	Christian Rovsing A/S	n.s.
	France	64.10
	Air Liquide SA	1.89
	Airbus Safran Launchers Holding	62.10
	Clemessy SA	0.11
	Compagnie Deutsch SAS	n.s.
	Germany	19.85
	Airbus Safran Launchers GmbH	11.59
	MT Aerospace AG	8.26
	Italy	3.38
	Avio SpA	3.38
	Netherlands	1.94
	Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands BV	1.94
	Norway	0.11
	Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS	0.11
	Spain	2.14
	Airbus Defence and Space SAU	2.03
	CRISA	0.11
	Sweden	2.45
	GKN Aerospace Sweden AB	1.63
	RUAG Space AB	0.82
	Switzerland	2.67
	RUAG Schweiz AG	2.67