Airbus Group and Safran Group on Dec. 3 said that their joint venture for launch activities will begin operations on Jan. 1, 2015, working with the existing Ariane 5 launchers and on a new family of launchers for Europe. The announcement by the two European aerospace and defense companies followed approval on Dec. 2 by a European Space Agency conference of the development and production of the new Ariane 6 space launcher. “With this joint venture, industry has made a…
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