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Arianespace

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Arianespace SA is a multinational company founded in 1980 as the world's first commercial launch service provider. [1]

63 relations: Aerospace, Air Liquide, Airbus Defence and Space, Antrix Corporation, Ariane (rocket family), Ariane 1, Ariane 2, Ariane 3, Ariane 4, Ariane 5, Ariane 6, ArianeGroup, Avio, Évry, Essonne, Baikonur Cosmodrome, CASBAA, CNES, Competition (economics), Courcouronnes, CRISA, Economies of scale, Essonne, Euro, Europa (rocket), European Space Agency, Eutelsat, France, French Guiana, Galileo (satellite navigation), Geostationary transfer orbit, Geosynchronous orbit, Government of France, Guiana Space Centre, H-IIA, Heavy-lift launch vehicle, International Launch Services, Kongsberg Defence Systems, Launch service provider, Launch Services Alliance, Launch vehicle, Low Earth orbit, Maiden flight, Medium-lift launch vehicle, Michel de Rosen, Multinational corporation, New product development, NewSpace, RUAG Space, SABCA, Solid-propellant rocket, ..., Soviet Union, Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre, Soyuz-2, SpaceX, Starsem, Sun-synchronous orbit, Supply (economics), Thales Alenia Space, Turbopump, United Launch Alliance, United Press International, Vega (rocket), Westview Press. Expand index (13 more) »

Aerospace

Aerospace is the human effort in science, engineering and business to fly in the atmosphere of Earth (aeronautics) and surrounding space (astronautics).

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Air Liquide

Air Liquide S.A. (literally "liquid air"), is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers.

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Airbus Defence and Space

Airbus Defence and Space is a division of Airbus responsible for defence and aerospace products and services.

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Antrix Corporation

Antrix Corporation Limited is the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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Ariane (rocket family)

Ariane is a series of a European civilian expendable launch vehicles for space launch use.

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Ariane 1

Ariane 1 was the first rocket in the Ariane family of expendable launch systems.

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Ariane 2

Ariane 2 was a European expendable carrier rocket, which was used for six launches between 1986 and 1989.

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Ariane 3

Ariane 3 was a European expendable carrier rocket, which was used for eleven launches between 1984 and 1989.

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Ariane 4

The Ariane 4 was an expendable launch system, designed by the Centre national d'études spatiales while being manufactured and marketed by its subsidiary Arianespace.

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Ariane 5

Ariane 5 is a European heavy-lift launch vehicle that is part of the Ariane rocket family, an expendable launch system used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) or low Earth orbit (LEO).

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Ariane 6

Ariane 6 is a launch vehicle under development by the European Space Agency (ESA), with a first test flight scheduled for 2020.

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ArianeGroup

ArianeGroup formerly Airbus Safran Launchers is a joint venture of the European aerospace company Airbus and the French group Safran, with its three core businesses: aerospace (orbital propulsion systems and equipment), defence and security with the objective of development and subsequent production of Ariane 6.

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Avio

Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the aerospace sector with its head office in Rivalta di Torino, Turin, Italy.

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Évry, Essonne

Évry is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, prefecture of the department of Essonne.

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Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome (translit; translit) is a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia.

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CASBAA

The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) is an association for multichannel TV broadcast service providers in Asia.

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CNES

The Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) (English: National Centre for Space Studies) is the French government space agency (administratively, a "public administration with industrial and commercial purpose").

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Competition (economics)

In economics, competition is a condition where different economic firmsThis article follows the general economic convention of referring to all actors as firms; examples in include individuals and brands or divisions within the same (legal) firm.

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Courcouronnes

Courcouronnes is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.

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CRISA

Computadores, Redes e Ingeniería, S.A. (CRISA) is a Spanish company founded in 1985 to develop and manufacture electronics and software products for aerospace applications.

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Economies of scale

In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation (typically measured by amount of output produced), with cost per unit of output decreasing with increasing scale.

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Essonne

Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France.

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Euro

The euro (sign: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union.

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Europa (rocket)

The Europa rocket was an early expendable launch system of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the European Space Agency (ESA).

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA; Agence spatiale européenne, ASE; Europäische Weltraumorganisation) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space.

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Eutelsat

Eutelsat S.A. is a European satellite operator.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (pronounced or, Guyane), officially called Guiana (Guyane), is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America in the Guyanas.

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Galileo (satellite navigation)

Galileo is the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that is being created by the European Union (EU) through the European Space Agency (ESA), headquartered in Prague in the Czech Republic, with two ground operations centres, Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich in Germany and Fucino in Italy.

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Geostationary transfer orbit

A geosynchronous transfer orbit or geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is a Hohmann transfer orbit—an elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane—used to reach geosynchronous or geostationary orbit using high-thrust chemical engines.

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Geosynchronous orbit

A geosynchronous orbit (sometimes abbreviated GSO) is an orbit around Earth of a satellite with an orbital period that matches Earth's rotation on its axis, which takes one sidereal day (23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds).

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Government of France

The Government of the French Republic (Gouvernement de la République française) exercises executive power in France.

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Guiana Space Centre

The Guiana Space Centre or, more commonly, Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) is a French and European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou in French Guiana.

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H-IIA

H-IIA (H2A) is an active expendable launch system operated by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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Heavy-lift launch vehicle

A heavy-lift launch vehicle, HLV or HLLV, is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting between 20,000 to 50,000 kg to low Earth orbit (LEO).

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International Launch Services

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Kongsberg Defence Systems

Kongsberg Defence Systems (KDS) is one of four wholly owned subsidies of Kongsberg Gruppen (KOG) of Norway and the supplier of defence and space related systems and products, mainly anti-ship missiles, military communications, and command and weapons control systems for naval vessels and air-defence applications.

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Launch service provider

A Launch service provider (LSP) is a type of company which specialises in launching spacecraft.

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Launch Services Alliance

Launch Services Alliance is a "back-up" launch service provider alliance between the Arianespace and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries established in 2003.

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Launch vehicle

A launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket used to carry a payload from Earth's surface through outer space, either to another surface point (suborbital), or into space (Earth orbit or beyond).

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude of or less, and with an orbital period of between about 84 and 127 minutes.

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Maiden flight

The maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground under its own power.

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Medium-lift launch vehicle

A medium-lift launch vehicle - MLV a rocket orbital launch vehicle that is capable of lifting between of payload into Low Earth orbit - LEO.

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Michel de Rosen

Michel de Rosen (born February 18, 1951) is the chairman of Faurecia and was the CEO of Eutelsat Communications from 2009 to 2016.

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Multinational corporation

A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.

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New product development

In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) covers the complete process of bringing a new product to market.

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NewSpace

NewSpace—formerly alt.space; also new space, entrepreneurial space, astropreneurship, and commercial space—are umbrella terms for a movement and philosophy encompassing a globally emerging, private spaceflight industry.

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RUAG Space

RUAG Space is the Space Division of the Swiss technology group RUAG.

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SABCA

SABCA (Sociétés Anonyme Belge de Constructions Aéronautiques) is a Belgian aerospace company, controlled by Dassault Group and Fokker.

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Solid-propellant rocket

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer).

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre

Soyuz at the Guiana Space Centre (also known as Soyuz at CSG or Arianespace Soyuz) is an ongoing ESA programme for operating Soyuz-ST launch vehicles from Guiana Space Centre (CSG), providing medium-size launch capability for Arianespace to accompany the light Vega and heavy-lift Ariane 5.

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Soyuz-2

Soyuz-2, GRAU index 14A14, is the collective designation for the new version of the Russian Soyuz rocket.

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

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Starsem

Starsem is a European-Russian company that was created in 1996 to commercialise the Soyuz launcher.

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Sun-synchronous orbit

A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO, also called a heliosynchronous orbit) is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time.

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Supply (economics)

In economics, supply is the amount of something that firms, consumers, labourers, providers of financial assets, or other economic agents are willing to provide to the marketplace.

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Thales Alenia Space

Thales Alenia Space is a Franco-Italian aerospace manufacturer formed after the Thales Group bought the participation of Alcatel in the two joint-ventures between Alcatel and Leonardo, Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio.

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Turbopump

A turbopump is a propellant pump with two main components: a rotodynamic pump and a driving gas turbine, usually both mounted on the same shaft, or sometimes geared together.

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United Launch Alliance

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century.

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Vega (rocket)

Vega (Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata, meaning "Advanced generation European carrier rocket"), is an expendable launch system in use by Arianespace jointly developed by the Italian Space Agency and the European Space Agency.

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Westview Press

Westview Press was an American publishing house.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianespace

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