Re: Ariane 5 Launch Price Revisited
- From: "frédéric haessig" <fhaessig@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:38:38 +0100
"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
1136484591.699655.197810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We recently discussed the launch price/cost of an Ariane 5 here.
> The recent Arianespace press release provides some clues
> about the subject.
>
> "http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/releases/presrel06_01_04.html";
>
> According to the release, Arianespace earned EU1.05 billion ($1.27
> billion)
> in 2005 while performing five Ariane 5 launches - an average of $254
> million
> per launch. Arianespace subsidiary Starsem earned EU100 million
> ($120.95 million) for three Soyuz launches, an average of $40.32
> million
> per launch.
>
> - Ed Kyle
>
The earning don't correspond to the lanch prices of the launches performed
this year. The payment are always on a long term.
Here is a Space News article which confirms that Arianespace is selling
launchers at 130 Meuro per.
Arianespace Profitable in 2005
By PETER B. de SELDING
Space News Staff Writer
posted: 04 January 2006
10:35 am ET
PARIS - The Arianespace commercial launch consortium expects to report
revenues of 1.05
billion euros ($1.24 billion) for 2005 and a profit of "several million
euros" on the strength of five
successful Ariane 5 rocket launches conducted during the year, Arianespace
Chief Executive
Jean-Yves Le Gall said Jan. 4. The launches carried a total of eight
satellites into orbit.
Le Gall said the Starsem S.A. company, an Arianespace affiliate that markets
Russia's Soyuz
rocket, will report about 100 million euros in sales and a profit of 1
million euros based on three
launches conducted in 2005.
Arianespace's revenues for 2005 include about 200 million euros in support
payments made by
European governments to help offset certain fixed costs the Evry,
France-based company incurs
in launching Ariane 5 vehicles from the Guiana Space Center in French
Guiana.
The same level of fixed-cost reimbursement is expected to continue through
2010 following an
agreement by member governments of the European Space Agency.
Le Gall said Arianespace, which in 2005 conducted two launches of its new
workhorse vehicle,
the Ariane 5 ECA, and its industrial contractors have agreed to reduce their
costs in the coming
years so that the Ariane 5 is profitable if each vehicle is sold for 130
million euros.
In part because the Ariane 5 ECA has only recently become fully operational
following its two
successes, the company is not yet able to generate a profit by selling
Ariane 5 vehicles at 130
million euros apiece, even with the European government support program.
But Le Gall said the efficiency and profitability of Ariane 5 production and
launching will improve
starting this year, when deliveries of a batch of 30 Ariane 5 vehicles
begin. This order includes
substantial price reductions agreed to by Ariane 5 manufacturers.
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