Launch services

Ariane 5

• Offers the commercial market’s greatest lift capacity, meeting operational needs of customers today and tomorrow
• Payload capacity of 10 metric tons delivered to GTO, up to 20 metric tons in LEO
  

Soyuz

• The world’s most launched vehicle, with over 1,700 manned and unmanned missions performed by the Soyuz family to date
• Payload capacity of 3,150 kg. delivered to GTO, 4,900 kg. into SSO

Vega

• Europe’s new lightweight launch vehicle, tailored for small- to medium-sized satellite payloads on missions to LEO and Sun-synchronous orbit
• Payload capacity of 1,500 kg. into a 700-km. circular polar orbit

Soyuz: the world's longest-operating launcher

Soyuz is one of the most utilized launchers to date, having been operated in more than 1,750 missions from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and Russia’s northern launch site at Plesetsk Cosmodrome.  

Its introduction at French Guiana will bring this venerable medium-lift vehicle into Arianespace’s growing launcher family – joining the heavy-lift Ariane 5 now operational at the Spaceport, and subsequently the lightweight Vega.  

Soyuz launchers to be flown from Europe’s Spaceport are evolved versions that include an updated digital flight control system, an increased-performance third stage and the larger Soyuz ST payload fairing.

For more information, review the following information and documentation provided on the Arianespace website:

• Soyuz at the Spaceport news story archive
• Image library
• Launch vehicle overview
• Soyuz User’s Manual
• Launch services fleet brochure
• Soyuz milestones
• Overview of the Soyuz launch site at Europe’s Spaceport