ESA and CNES sign assistance contracts

On 19 June 2007 at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, ESA and the French National Space Agency (Centre National d'Études Spatiales – CNES) signed contracts covering the provision of assistance to ESA by CNES for the Ariane Consolidation and Evolution Programme and the Ariane Accompaniment Program.

The contracts were signed by ESA’s Director of Launcher Programmes, Antonio Fabrizi (on the right), and Lionel Ravet (on the left) of the CNES Ariane Development Directorate – on behalf of Michel Eymard, CNES Director of Launchers.