Arianespace and UK-based small satellite launch services provider Orbex have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore future cooperation. The partnership aims to increase the joint capabilities and flexibility of both companies’ services, particularly for customers planning small satellite constellations. Light and heavy-lift launch vehicles could jointly support customers in deploying their initial constellations into the required orbital planes, provide precise injections of a smaller number of satellites through dedicated missions, as well as provide replenishment and replacement launches. Orbex’s Prime rocket is powered by a renewable fuel, bio-propane, which allows the rocket to reduce carbon emissions significantly compared to other similarly sized rockets being developed elsewhere around the world. Orbex has already signed commercial launch contracts with seven customers and began construction of Sutherland Spaceport in May 2023.
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