About Us

Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world’s first launch Service & Solutions company. It now has 23 shareholders from 10 European countries (including the French space agency CNES with 34%, EADS Astrium with 30% and all European companies participating in the production of Ariane 5 launchers). Since its creation, Arianespace has launched 267 payloads for 71 customers, accounting for more than half of the commercial satellites now in service.