Arianespace has successfully launched the EUTELSAT 65 West A satellite for Eutelsat Communications. The company’s second launch of the year took place on March 9 at 2:20 am (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana. Thierry Mandon, French Minister for Higher Education and Research, was in Kourou for the launch.

Arianespace has successfully launched Intelsat 29e for the international operator Intel-sat. Arianespace’s first launch of the year, and its 56th performed for Intelsat, took place on January 27 at 8:20 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. This 70th success in a row for Ariane 5 initiates another ambitious year for Arianespace, which is planning to launch up to eight Ariane 5 missions during 2016.

Arianespace has successfully launched the 11th and 12th satellites in the Galileo constellation for the European Commission, under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). The company's 12th launch of the year, and the 13th Soyuz launch from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, took place on December 17 at 8:51 am local time. It was attended by Elzbieta Bienkowska, the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs.

LISA Pathfinder will be placed in an initial elliptical Earth orbit at 1 hr., 45 min., 33 sec. after liftoff. The spacecraft’s own propulsion module then will be utilized to reach the operational orbit around the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1) – located approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

The company's tenth launch of the year from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), and sixth with the Ariane 5 heavy launcher, took place on November 10 at 6:34 pm local time in Kourou, French Guiana..

Arianespace successfully launched two satellites this evening: Sky Muster for the Australian operator nbn (National Broadband Network) and ARSAT-2 for the Argentine operator ARSAT..

Arianespace has orbited the two latest satellites in the Galileo constellation, the 9 and 10, for the European Commission, within the scope of a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA).

With the successful launch of EUTELSAT 8 West B and Intelsat 34, Arianespace celebrates a partnership stretching back more than 30 years with two world leaders in satellite communications, Eutelsat and Intelsat.

Arianespace has successfully launched two geostationary satellites: Star One C4 for the private operator Embratel Star One, the leading satellite communications company in South America, and MSG-4 for EUMETSAT, the European organization dedicated to weather, climate and environmental monitoring.

Arianespace orbited the Sentinel-2A satellite on its fifth launch of the year, also the fifth launch overall by Vega, the latest member of its launcher family. Sentinel-2A is the second satellite from the European Commission's Copernicus program to be launched by Arianespace, under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-2A lifted off on June 22 at 10:51:58 pm local time from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana.