About Arianespace

Latest milestones

• May 7, 2013
  Vega’s second flight from French Guiana marks the start-up of mission operations under Arianespace responsibility for this light-lift launcher. A trio of satellites, including Vega’s first commercial payload, are orbited during the successful mission.
• April 18, 2013
  Stéphane Israël is appointed Chairman & CEO of Arianespace, succeeding Jean-Yves Le Gall – who led the company since 2001 and earlier in April 2013 was named President of French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales).
• March 18, 2013
  Arianespace announces a three-satellite launch services contract for Intelsat, with the spacecraft to be orbited through 2017 by Ariane 5 vehicles from the Spaceport. The deal covers the 52nd, 53rd and 54th payloads that Arianespace will orbit for this leading provider of satellite services, continuing a nearly 33-year partnership.

Kiyoshi Takamatsu - Japan Representative, Tokyo Office

Kiyoshi Takamatsu is the Japan Representative for Arianespace's Tokyo office.

He is a 1981 graduate from the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science of the University of Tokyo, with a Master of Engineering degree in structural dynamics of launch vehicles. Before joining Arianespace, Kiyoshi spent 11 years in the aerospace division of Fuji Heavy Industries, where he was a program manager for various space projects.

He joined Arianespace in 1992, starting as a liaison engineer in the Tokyo office. Kiyoshi then served as the Deputy Representative in charge of technical matters and the Japanese market from 1998 until his promotion to the office’s head position in 2008.

The primary responsibility of Arianespace’s Tokyo office is the management of customer relations in Japan, but it also keeps in close contact with Japanese government ministries and agencies, satellite and space industry companies, the space insurance sector, banks, trading companies, etc. In addition, the office assists Arianespace headquarters and the company’s Singapore-based ASEAN office in corporate communications and public relations outreach throughout the Asia-Pacific area.

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