Arianespace is founded as the first commercial launch services company

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1. Story
2. European governments and industry established a company whose business was selling launches to third parties, rather than an agency flying its own payloads. For roughly the next two decades it held a large share of the commercial geostationary launch market, operating from the Guiana Space Centre and exploiting the equatorial latitude advantage. Its existence made launch a purchasable service with a price list, which is the precondition for anyone to speak of a launch market at all.
3. Knowledge
4. The commercial launch industry
5. Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
6. Arianespace is founded as the first commercial launch services company
7. Connections
8. The commercial launch industry
9. Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
10. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
11. Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
12. Human spaceflight as a commercial service
13. Arianespace is founded as the first commercial launch services company
14. The commercial launch industry
15. Arianespace is founded as the first commercial launch services company
16. Evidence
17. The satellite industry's revenue is reported in four segments — satellite services, ground equipment, satellite manufacturing and launch services — with services and ground equipment together forming the large majority and launch a low single-digit share. V55 verification basis: this session had no network egress and no remaining WebSearch budget, so the report was not retrieved; the segment structure is stated from author knowledge and every figure derived from it is given as a magnitude rather than a number.