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  Arianespace Reports 1999 Results (June 2)
Arianespace paid income taxes of 6 million euros in 1999, while it had a tax credit of 12.2 million euros in 1998.
Furthermore, Arianespace is applying a proactive cost reduction effort while ensuring a continuation of the quality and reliability that have established the company's reputation.
Arianespace beefed up its role in Ariane 5 launcher development last year, with the creation of the Ariane Development Division -- jointly run with the French CNES space agency.
www.defense-aerospace.com /produit/2316_us.html   (1063 words)

  
  Space Transportation News of May 2002
Arianespace eventually signed a previously announced launch contract with Satelites Mexicanos SA de CV (SatMex) to loft its US$300-million Satmex 6 communication satellite atop an Ariane 5 vehicle during the first quarter of 2003.
According to Arianespace, these provisions will support the use of the Ariane 5 launch vehicles untill the new batches of launchers are introduced with their production cost reduced at first by 35% and then by 50% compared to the current vehicles.
Arianespace and Boeing Launch Services are bidding to launch PT Telkomonikasi Indonesia's Telkom 2 satellite during the first quarter 2004.
www.orbireport.com /News2002-05.html   (6210 words)

  
 Second Ariane of 2006 - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
Arianespace is preparing for the second Ariane 5 launch of the year.
Arianespace has set May 26 for the liftoff of its next Ariane 5 ECA mission, as the heavy-lift launcher and its dual-satellite payload advance through their preparation process at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
The record-setting payload for Arianespace's upcoming heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA mission is now being integrated with launcher hardware as preparations enter their final phase for the May 26 liftoff from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=67085   (4080 words)

  
 Arianespace Gets Launch Order for Mitsubishi's Superbird-7 Satellite - Business - RedOrbit
Apr. 10--TOKYO -- Arianespace SA said Monday it has landed an order from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. to send into orbit the Mitsubishi group's Superbird-7 communications satellite in the first quarter of 2008.
Arianespace will put the 5-ton satellite into a stationary orbit at 144 degrees east longitude using an Ariane 5 rocket to be launched from the Guiana Space Center at Kourou in French Guiana, according to the world's largest satellite launch service provider.
Arianespace accounts for 70 percent of Japan's commercial satellite launch services market, with 23 of the 32 satellites whose launch services have been won on a competitive tender basis.
www.redorbit.com /news/business/464751/arianespace_gets_launch_order_for_mitsubishis_superbird7_satellite/index.html   (259 words)

  
 Arianespace Reports 1999 Results
Arianespace paid income taxes of US$ 5.6 million (EUR 6 million) in 1999, while it had a tax credit of US$ 11.4 million (EUR 12.2 million) in 1998.
Arianespace is continuing the capital investments and other efforts needed to boost Ariane 5 production and launch rates to eight per year beginning in 2003.
In 1999, 15 GTO satellite launch contracts were offered for tender, compared with 21 in 1998, with Arianespace winning 12 out of the 15 contracts.
www.spaceandtech.com /digest/sd2000-13/sd2000-13-006.shtml   (369 words)

  
 Arianespace - Arianespace Launches Pair of Satellites
Arianespace recruitment: Browse employment offers by Company, sort jobs by finance sector and job location.
Charles Bigot will give up his position as President of Arianespace in the middle of this year, he is retiring.
Arianespace Launches Pair of Satellites This article is viewable on Topix.net Arianespace successfully launched two communications satellites into orbit
galileo.recommendlist.com /rl/galileo-arianespace.htm   (212 words)

  
 Arianespace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
La société de télécommunications PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia a choisi Arianespace pour le lancement de son satellite TELKOM-2.
De sa position orbitale à 118 degrés Est de longitude, il permettra à PT TELKOM de remplacer le satellite Palapa B-4.
Il augmentera ainsi sa couverture de l'Asie du Sud Est et du sous-continent indien, en complément de sa couverture actuelle de l'Indonésie.
www.arianespace.com /site/fr/actualite/p11_08_02.htm   (337 words)

  
 Satellite 2007
Along with the successful return to flight of the Ariane ECA, customers continued to sign with Arianespace while this advanced launch vehicle was grounded, awarding the company four announced commercial launch contracts to be carried out on the Ariane 5 ECA in the coming years.
From Le Gall finalizing financial and political agreements with the Russian and European authorities for Souyz to be launched from French Guiana, to Arianespace placing nine satellites into geostationary orbit and expanding its business with significant commercial, civil and military contracts.
Le Gall’s efforts in 2005 positioned Arianespace for continued strategic growth in a highly competitive market,” said Via Satellite Editor and SATELLITE 2007 Chairman Nick Mitsis.
www.satellite2006.com /info/pressrelease.html   (406 words)

  
 FLUG REVUE update, Week ending April 20, 1997
The decision of the Board of Directors of Arianespace S.A. and Arianespace Participation holding company was taken unanimously: Jean-Marie Luton, Directeur Generale of ESA, the European Space Agency, is to be chairman of Arianespace Participation with the responisibilty for defining and applying Euroepan space transportation systems.
Whereas the decision on the future chairman of Arianespace SA, the industrial and commercial operating company for Ariane launch systems was postponed until late May. Francis Avanzi still is the candidate of Arianespace to succeed Charles Bigot, who retires.
Arianespace has received on order for the launch of Eutelsat's W3 in the spring of 1999.
www.flug-revue.rotor.com /FRNews/FR970420.htm   (1869 words)

  
 Arianespace Nears Deal With Soyuz
PARIS -- West European rocket consortium Arianespace is close to a marketing deal with Russia's Soyuz to give it a foothold in the launch of small satellites, a French minister said Thursday.
Arianespace, hit by the failure of its Ariane-5 rocket on its maiden flight on Tuesday, lacks resources to develop a launcher for small satellites alongside its heavyweight Ariane-4 and Ariane-5, French Minister for Telecommunications and Space FranЌois Fillon said.
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 Ariane 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is manufactured under the authority of the European Space Agency (ESA) with EADS SPACE Transportation as prime contractor, leading a consortium of sub-contractors.
The rocket is operated and marketed by Arianespace as part of the Ariane programme.
After this failure, Arianespace SA delayed the expected January 2003 launch for the Rosetta mission to 26 February 2004, but this was again delayed to early March 2004 due to a minor fault in the foam that protects the cryogenic tanks on the Ariane 5.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ariane_5   (1860 words)

  
 Sample Contracts - Launch Services Agreement (Termination) - Arianespace SA, Arianespace Finance SA and CD Radio Inc. - ...
To date, CD Radio has made payments to Arianespace of $15,870,653 for Launch #1, and of $7,040,000 for Launch #2, for a total payment of $22,910,653.
Under the terms of Paragraph 18.2 of the Launch Agreement, CD Radio's termination fee is 10% of the launch services price of each of the terminated launches, for a total of $17,600,000 (based on $8,800,000 per launch).
Pursuant to Sub-paragraph 18.2.3, CD Radio is entitled to the difference between amounts it has paid for the launches in excess of the termination fee, or $5,310,653, which Arianespace is required to refund within thirty (30) days of this notice of termination.
contracts.onecle.com /sirius/arianespace.term.1998.05.29.shtml   (380 words)

  
 Arianespace Information
Founded in 1980, Arianespace SA undertakes the production, operation and marketing of the Ariane 4 and Ariane 5 rocket launchers as part of the Ariane programme.
As of 2002 Arianespace held more than 50 percent of the world market for boosting satellites to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
Arianespace utilises a launch site at Kourou in French Guiana.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Arianespace   (77 words)

  
 Search results for "ariane-5" - Copernic Agent
Arianespace to Continue with Launches of the Baseline Ariane 5, Prepares Strategy for Introduction of Ariane 5 ECA Version...
Arianespace is putting all its effort into the Ariane 5 - the older, very reliable Ariane 4 will be retired after one last flight.
The Arianespace launch consortium of Evry, France, announced Jan. 14 that it does not yet have sufficient confidence in the Ariane 5 rocket to...
www.cs.bgsu.edu /maner/680/ariane5links.htm   (6239 words)

  
 Le spectateur | j'y pense, et puis j'oublie: The astronaut?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Founded less than 30 years ago in 1980, Arianespace SA is the world's leading satellite launch company with more than 50% share of the market for sending satellites into orbit and more than 200 commercial launches since 1984.
Among the successful launches are the 2 MEASAT satellites launched in January and November 1996 that give us the Astro channels, among others.
Arianespace has signed more than 260 satellite launch contracts since its inception in 1980.
razin.blogs.com /intro/2006/06/the_astronaut.html   (256 words)

  
 rediff.com: US allows Alcatel to sell satellite to Agrani: BS
Agrani, which is seeking to raise about Rs 6.90 billion in debt, is slated to announce financial closure very soon.
The ministry of commerce and industry has already approved a proposed investment by Alcatel Spacecom SA and Arianespace SA in the Agrani Satellite project, the first private Indian initiative to launch a C & Ku-band satellite.
French satellite major Alcatel will pick up a 9.5 per cent stake for $15 million and Arianespace, the global major launch service provider, is picking up 3.25 per cent stake in ASSL for $5 million.
www.rediff.com /money/2002/jan/16agrani.htm   (406 words)

  
 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS REGARDING DRUG MNCs,
Madhumathi D.S. Spacecom SA and Arianespace SA will be investing in Agrani, the first private Indian satellite venture.
It is slated to become commercially operational by the fourth quarter of 2003, the spokesperson said.
To be launched by Arianespace, it will have 24 transponders in the C and 14 in the Ku bands and a life of 14 years.
www.patentmatics.org /pub80.htm   (266 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Ariane 5 Rocket Orbits Communications Satellites
The Ariane-5 carried satellites for the Spanish defense ministry and for Paris-based Eutelsat Communications SA, Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-country European Space Agency, said in a statement.
Arianespace has scheduled five launches from its base in Kourou this year, although it would try for six, said Jean-Yves Le Gall, the agency's chief executive officer.
Arianespace also was building a launch pad for Russian Soyuz rockets in Kourou, and the first Soyuz takeoff was set for November 2008.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/ap_060312_ariane5_launch.html   (386 words)

  
 EUROPA - Rapid - Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The finance contract was signed by the Managing Director of Arianespace, Jean-Yves Le Gall, and EIB Vice-President Philippe de Fontaine Vive, along with Arianespace’s Chairman Jean-Marie Luton.
Firstly, and most obviously, in terms of enhanced progress and competitiveness thanks to an increased applied research effort based on European centres of excellence such as Arianespace and ESA.
The RandD on top of that financed by national budgets is of course made possible by the private sector but also by EU support, especially EIB loans.
europa.eu /rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=BEI/05/11&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en   (547 words)

  
 MMS /DASA/ASTRIUM (Merger) - COMP/M.163 [2000] ECComm 8 (21 March 2000)
The principal activities of MMS are the manufacture and supply of space systems, including satellites and their payloads, sub-systems for launchers and manned space flight vehicles, ground stations and various sub-systems and technologies.
Aérospatiale-Matra, MMS and DASA are active in launch services through their interests in Arianespace Participations SA (which controls Arianespace SA, the company responsible for the Ariane launcher production phase, and for the marketing and launch of the Ariane launcher family).
In addition to their equity stake in the Arianespace group, the parties and their parent companies are engaged in a number of activities for the Ariane launchers.
www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECComm/2000/8.html   (12356 words)

  
 Arianespace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More than 130 commercial launches have occurred since May 22, 1984.
Arianespace uses a launch site at Kourou in French Guiana.
This page was last modified 07:47, 4 December 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arianespace   (113 words)

  
 Pentagon's Global View (washingtonpost.com)
Arianespace SA, the European rocket-launch company, is hoping to work with NASA, but doesn't expect the same with the Pentagon.
Embraer SA of Brazil is leasing a 71,000-square-foot plant in Jacksonville, Fla., to assemble the Army spy planes.
Foreign investment in the United States from 2000 to 2003 fell 12 percent, to $566 billion, according to a Pentagon report.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A15461-2005Mar7_2.html   (801 words)

  
 SAT-NA April 21, 1997
BSAT-1a is the 10th Japanese satellite to be launched from Kourou, out of the 12 launch service contracts Arianespace has signed to date in Japan.
Meeting of Arianespace Board of Directors The Board of Directors of Arianespace has proposed its choice of Jean-Marie Luton, currently Director General of the European Space Agency, as the future Chairman of Arianespace Participation with responsibility for defining and applying European space transportation strategy.
The Board of Directors postponed the nomination of the future Chairman of Arianespace SA until late May. Arianespace SA is the industrial and commercial operating company for Ariane launch systems.
www.sat-net.com /listserver/sat-na/msg00066.html   (2767 words)

  
 ITworld.com - European broadband Internet satellite launched
A satellite designed to offer two-way high-speed Internet service across all of Europe was launched late Saturday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.
E-Bird, which will be operated by Paris-based Eutelsat SA, was one of three satellites carried into orbit on Ariane flight 162.
The rocket blasted off from the European Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, at 8:14pm local time (23:14 GMT) Saturday, operator Arianespace SA said in a statement.
www.itworld.com /Net/2614/030929satellite/pfindex.html   (351 words)

  
 Plan du site
Cegelec confirme sa position de leader dans l'éolien avec deux nouveaux contrats depuis début 2005
Arianespace et Cegelec renouvellent leur accord de coopération sur Kourou jusqu'en 2011
Cegelec confirme sa part de marché (30%) en concluant 11 contrats de construction de parcs éoliens en France en 2005
www.cegelec.fr /sitemap.htm   (890 words)

  
 Ariane-5 Rocket Explodes, Satellites Plunging into Sea
However, three minutes later, technical problems developed, according to Arianespace, the launcher's commercial arm, and the rocket fell into the Atlantic Ocean in pieces, along with its multimillion dollar payload, according to Arianespace.
The launch of the new version had been regarded as a test for Arianespace, which wants to demonstrate that it can trim operating costs by placing two heavy satellites into geostationary orbit at a time.
Flight Director Jean-Yves Le Gall apologized to Arianespace's clients who lost their satellites, then suggested the problems could be overcome.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /200212/12/eng20021212_108348.shtml   (591 words)

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