How Arianespace holds strong in a competitive rocket launch market:
Share to twitterArianespace's launches are now including more constellation-type satellites and fewer geostationary satellites, in response to market dynamics.Everybody knows that rockets today are very different than 10 years ago. SpaceX regularly launches and lands rockets for multiple missions. Spacecraft are smaller and tend to fly in bunches. For a company like Arianespace, which was founded in 1980, this means a lot of innovation must happen very quickly.
What's more, Arianespace is working hard to pick up customers outside of those who fly large, geostationary satellites -- a fairly static market right now. Notable among these new wins is OneWeb, a satellite Internet provider; ArianespaceArianespace CEO Stephane Israel said in an interview that a large part of the company's success this year has been moving away from the geostationary market.
Arianespace had 11 successful launches in 2018, including this one in December of an Indian geostationary communications satellite."They've had a pretty successful year," said Northern Sky Research senior analyst Shagun Sachdeva in an interview. She added the constellation launches are a"big plus" for Arianespace, and that so far the company has been capitalizing well on that segment.
Israel acknowledged that there is still a lot of work left to do on preparing Ariane 6. But it is meeting milestones so far; the engines have been tested, and the rocket is being manufactured.
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