8 Nov 2016

After a programmatic review finalised in September and following the positive outcome of today’s meeting of the Industrial Policy Committee, ESA is now in a position to confirm the full development of Ariane 6 and Vega C.
Tomorrow, the riders to the contracts already awarded in August 2015 to the industrial contractor Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) for the launcher development and to the French space agency CNES for its launch complex, will be signed at ESA headquarters, 8-10 Rue Mario Nikis in Paris at 11:00.
Media representatives are invited to attend the ceremony as of 10:45.

The contracts will be signed by Jan Dietrich Woerner, Director General of ESA, Alain Charmeau, CEO/President of ASL and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES. The signatures will take place in the presence of Thierry Mandon, French Secretary of State for Research and Higher Education.