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Arianespace operates the Ariane 6 heavy-lift and Vega-C small-lift rockets from French Guiana as part of ArianeGroup, the Airbus-Safran joint venture.
ACTIVEArianespace, a wholly owned subsidiary of ArianeGroup (the Airbus-Safran joint venture), markets and operates Europe's Ariane 6 launcher from French Guiana. Under ESA arrangements signed in November 2025, operation and commercialization of Vega-C passed to Avio.
Arianespace, a wholly owned subsidiary of ArianeGroup (the Airbus-Safran joint venture), markets and operates Europe's Ariane 6 launcher from French Guiana. Under ESA arrangements signed in November 2025, operation and commercialization of Vega-C passed to Avio.
Rank 48 of 94 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 33 and 60.
3 of 5 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 77% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-20 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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C/O ARIANEGROUP 51-61 ROUTE DE VERNEUIL, Les Mureaux, France 78130
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Parent, Legal name
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No private round on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Contracts, suppliers, launches and schedule for each program, every fact sourced:
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Compiled Oct 20, 2026 from 3 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Launches flown as provider
12 since Nov 18, 2024
none failed. Latest: Ariane 62 | MTG-I2
Our launch record starts Nov 18, 2024; earlier launches are not counted here. Every kind of launch in the feed counts, crewed, lunar and station missions included.
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
Latest launch Aug 27, 2026
Next launch
Ariane 64 Block 2 | Amazon Leo (LE-04)
Date to be determined; 50 more on the manifest, 48 of them dated only to a month, quarter or year
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
No earlier than Nov 23, 2026
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 20). Arianespace: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/arianespace
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Arianespace: Company dossier." Data as of October 20, 2026. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/arianespace.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_arianespace_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Arianespace}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/arianespace}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/arianespace},
urldate = {2026-10-20},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-20; each fact links its primary source}
}