September 2016
Small launcher market survey
... to Enable Industry Paradigm Shift,” 2015 AIAA Space Conference (conference paper), Pasadena, CA, September 2015. 10Svitak, Amy, “Arianespace’s Vega to Launch Four Skybox Imaging Sats In 2016,” Aviation Week.com (web article), http://aviationweek.com...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Most of the 21 launches Arianespace will use to build out the OneWeb constellation will blast...this is OneWeb, a company that has contracted with Arianespace to launch a mega-constellation of almost 700 small ...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... GSLV can carry only two-tonne class communication satellites. Those with a higher mass have to be launched by Arianespace’s Ariane-5 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guyana. Thereafter, there are any number of missions...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... own space launch capability but only six of these conduct regular launch operations: China, Europe (via Arianespace), India, Japan, Russia and the USA. Collectively, they conduct 80-90 launches per year (86 in 2015, of which 81 were...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... 9 launch costs Rs 381 crores; other rockets-a Russian Proton Rs 455 crores; Japan’s H-11A, Chinese Long March, Arianespace Ariane-5 and the American Atlas 5 each cost Rs 6,692 crores. Against these a launch by ISRO’s PSLV is estimated...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... technology and applied no effort to developing service providers such as the successful European models of Spot Image or Arianespace. The Vision encourages the government to set up pilot projects for each satellite programme and invites private...
