ARIANESPACE

Using space for a better life on Earth

To serve its international clients, Arianespace is present worldwide: in France (headquarters at Evry, near Paris), in the United-States (Washington, D.C.), in Japan (Tokyo) and Singapore. Arianespace operates its launch services from South America (at the Spaceport in French Guiana) and Central Asia (at Baikonur Cosmodrome).
Arianespace was founded in 1980 as the world's first satellite launch company. Its shareholders are French space agency CNES, Astrium and all the European space companies, representing 10 European countries.

As of July 2012, the company had 315 employees, at corporate headquarters in Evry, at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), launch site for Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega, and at local offices in Washington DC, Singapore and Tokyo.