ArianeGroup launch planning at Kourou: Telespazio
France extends its key role

Women's equality has been placed at the heart of French Government priorities, by decree no. 2019-15 of January 8, 2019. In this context, French companies with more than 50 employees, required to calculate an “equal pay index”, each year.

At the beginning of December 2024, ArianeGroup renewed its confidence in Telespazio France by extending until 2027 the contract for the planning of launches and maintenance of the Ariane Launch Assemblies (ELA) at the Guiana Space Centre.

Telespazio France has been contributing to ArianeGroup's operations in Kourou for more than 20 years. This contract reaffirms our role as a trusted operator in the field of access to space and the operation of space infrastructures. 

Telespazio, a subsidiary of Thales and Leonardo groups, is the trusted French operator facilitating access to space and the exploitation of space infrastructures for its institutional customers, primarily CNES and MinArm. In the field of access to space, Telespazio has been operating and maintaining most of the electronic means at the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana, for over 40 years on behalf of CNES and Arianespace. To this end, Telespazio France teams in Kourou played a crucial role in the preparation and during the launch of Ariane 6 FM1, ensuring that all systems were operational.