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Airbus, Safran Team For Launch Activities

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, June 20th, 2014

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Airbus and Safran are teaming to propose a new family of space launch vehicles to serve both commercial and institutional needs, according to a joint company statement. The companies will create a 50-50 joint venture with Airbus supplying its expertise in launch vehicles and Safran supplying propulsion systems. The goal is to accelerate the Ariane 5 Midlife Evolution (ME) launcher as a logical evolution of Ariane 5, including an improved upper stage based on the Vinci engine and further develop the Ariane 6…

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