Starsem

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Starsem , founded in 1996, markets satellite launches with the Russian Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur spaceport and, since 2008, from the European spaceport in Kourou . The company is based in Évry near Paris .

The French-dominated companies Arianespace (15%) and ArianeGroup (35%), Russia's space agency Roskosmos (25%) and the manufacturer of the rocket, RKZ Progress (25%), are involved in Starsem .

In 1999 Starsem carried, among other things, 24 Globalstar satellites into space, which corresponded to a turnover of one billion francs .

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  1. ↑ ArianeGroup (ed.): Shaping the Future of Access to Space . Paris 2018.
  2. ↑ New crew started for Mir . In: www.wissenschaft.de . April 1, 2000. Retrieved September 8, 2019.