ILS President, Tiphaine Louradour, at WSBW

The President of ILS International Launch Services, Tiphaine Louradour will be on a panel discussing ‘Launch service leaders : new launchers, new market, new rules’ in Paris for this year’s WSBW, held in person on December 13-16, 2021 at the Westin Hotel!

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Tiphaine Louradour, ILS President, is featured in Via Satellite’s “Nine Satellite CEOs to Watch in 2021”

Nine Satellite CEOs to Watch in 2021

Via Satellite highlights nine executive leaders to pay attention to as we move forward into the future space economy.

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INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH SERVICES AND RUSSIAN PARTNERS EXPRESS ONGOING COMMITMENT TO SPACE ACTIVITIES, COMMEMORATE HISTORIC FIRST COMMERCIAL SATELLITE LAUNCH ON RUSSIAN LAUNCH VEHICLE

RESTON, Virginia, April 9, 2021–Twenty-five years ago, on April 9, 1996, a combined Russian, American and European team made space history with the first launch of a Western satellite onboard a Russian rocket. The Proton launch vehicle carried the ASTRA 1F satellite for SES of Luxembourg, to geosynchronous transfer orbit with an early morning liftoff from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The launch services for this milestone mission were conducted by International Launch Services (ILS), a U.S. company, headquartered in Reston, Virginia and established in 1995. The Proton launch vehicle, a U.S. Department of State licensed launch system, is manufactured by Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, of Moscow. 

Today, Proton has conducted 97 commercial missions for over 50 companies representing 25 countries across the globe, forging ongoing partnerships in international cooperation in space.

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