ArianeGroup

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ArianeGroup
legal form SAS
founding January 1, 2015
Seat Issy-les-Moulineaux , FranceFranceFrance 
management André-Hubert Roussel
Number of employees 9,000
sales 1 billion euros
Branch Space travel
Website http://www.ariane.group
Status: 2018

ArianeGroup (until 2017 Airbus saffron launcher) is a joint venture of the European aerospace company Airbus Group and the French group Safran with its three core businesses: Aerospace and Aerospace (propulsion systems and equipment), Defense and Security, which with the objective of developing and later manufacture of the rocket Ariane 6 was founded on January 1, 2015. The company is based in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris .

Locations

The company is located in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles , Kourou ( spaceport ), Vernon , Le Haillan and Les Mureaux in France and Lampoldshausen , Bremen , Trauen and Ottobrunn in Germany .

Arianespace

On June 16, 2015, ArianeGroup announced that it had acquired a total of 74 percent of Arianespace by transferring a 35 percent share from the French space agency CNES .

The company started with around 450 employees and an annual turnover of around 1 billion euros.

Ariane 6

Ariane 62 (left) and Ariane 64 (right)

On August 12, 2015, the European space agency ESA commissioned ArianeGroup as the main contractual partner to develop the new Ariane 6 .

The contract covers a volume of 2.4 billion euros for the development of the two versions of the Ariane 6 launcher - Ariane 62 and Ariane 64. The contract includes a binding commitment of around 680 million euros to carry out the first development work (phases A and B) until the preliminary design review planned for mid-2016. Overall, the development costs will amount to around 3 billion euros, including the boosters that Ariane and Vega will share, and an industrial investment of 400 million euros.

See also

For the considerations in the ArianeGroup on the recyclability of rocket parts to reduce costs, see Adeline (rocket) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Official brochure from Airbus Safran Launchers ; PDF file
  2. ↑ Airbus Group, Safran: Press Release. Airbus Group and Safran form joint venture on December 3, 2014 ; PDF file accessed February 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.airbusafran-launchers.com/#location Homepage of Airbus Safran Launchers, accessed on February 8, 2016
  4. ↑ Airbus Safran Launchers to become 74% shareholder of Arianespace , accessed February 8, 2016
  5. ↑ Press release Airbus Safran Launchers: a highly promising first year from January 28, 2016 ; accessed on February 8, 2016
  6. ↑ Airbus Defense and Space: Airbus Safran Launchers receives order to develop Ariane 6 from the European Space Agency, press release of August 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 8, 2016