The support contract for Vega’s qualification campaign and combined testing was signed in Rome by Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall (right) and Markus Bertschi, Launcher Programmes Department Head at the European Space Agency. Testing will begin at the Spaceport in April in preparation for Vega’s service entry toward the end of 2010.

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Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall (right) and Markus Bertschi, Launcher Programmes Department Head at the European Space Agency, sign an agreement defining Arianespace’s support services for the testing and initial launch campaign of the lightweight Vega launcher, which will enter service in 2010 at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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Arianespace's 11th Service & Solutions contract of 2009 was signed by David Williams (left), Chief Executive of new customer Avanti Communications, and Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall to launch the HYLAS telecommunications satellite in the first part of 2010.

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The launch agreement for Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 is signed in Moscow by (from right to left): Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, Thales Alenia Space President & CEO Reynald Seznec, and Gazprom Space Systems Director General Dmitry Sevastiyanov.

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The launch contract signature for Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 is marked in Moscow by (from right to left): Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, Thales Alenia Space President & CEO Reynald Seznec, and Gazprom Space Systems Director General Dmitry Sevastiyanov.

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The launch agreement for Hispasat 1E is marked by Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and Petra Mateos-Aparicio, the Chairman of Hispasat. It is the first contract signed by Arianespace in 2009. Hispasat 1E will be lofted by an Ariane 5 in 2010, and is a Space Systems/Loral-built satellite designed to give Hispasat additional capacity – enabling the Spanish operator to offer a broader range of video and data transmission services with European and pan-American coverage.

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Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall (at right) and Astrium Space Transportation CEO Alain Charmeau sign an agreement for 35 Ariane 5 ECA launchers during a ceremony in Paris. This agreement – worth more than 4 billion euros – brings the total number of Ariane 5 launch vehicles under production to 49, and guarantees the long-term availability of Arianespace’s Service & Solutions offer, which is complemented by the Vega and Soyuz launchers. 

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Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and Anatoly Perminov, General Director of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, shake hands after the contract signature for 10 Soyuz ST launch vehicles, which are to be used from the Spaceport in French Guiana or the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan beginning in 2009.  This contract was signed September 20 in Sochi, Russia during a French-Russian governmental seminar attended by French Prime Minister François Fillon and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

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The agreement for BSAT-3b's Ariane 5 launch was signed April 11 in Tokyo by Arianespace Chairman & CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall and B-SAT Corporation President & CEO Kazuo Takenaka.

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