Arianespace Spaceport Investment Aims To Reduce Time Between Launches

Europe's Arianespace commercial launch consortium on Dec. 6 agreed to spend 36.5 million euros ($50 million) to build a fueling facility at Europe's South American spaceport to reduce the time needed between Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launches, Arianespace and the French space agency, CNES, announced Dec. 6.