Arianespace - A Portrait of Service 2021

Arianespace, the European launch services operator, closed out a very intense year in 2021 with a total of 15 launches: three by Ariane 5, nine by Soyuz (including eight from the Russian spaceports in Baikonur and Vostochny for the OneWeb constellation) and three by Vega. A total of 305 satellites were launched. Out of the 15 launches, there were 11.5 for solely commercial customers, making Arianespace the leader in this market. Arianespace logged revenues of more than billion euros in 2021, 30% higher than the previous year. At the same time, Arianespace consolidated the backlog of orders for its family of launch vehicles (Ariane 5, Ariane 6, Soyuz, Vega and Vega C) by adding 22 satellites from the following customers: - ISRO/NSIL, for the GSAT-24 satellite, assigned to the last position available on Ariane 5. - EUMETSAT, with the MTG-I2 satellite planned for an Ariane 64 launch. - ESA (for the European Commission) and EUSPA, which chose three Ariane 62 and a Soyuz launch for eight Galileo sate