Another year of Arianespace launch accomplishments is completed with a Soyuz mission for Globalstar

Arianespace wrapped up another busy – and historic – 12 months of commercial launch services today by orbiting six satellites for mobile voice and data services on the ninth flight of 2011 – during a year in which the company lofted a total of 29 payloads using the Ariane 5 and Soyuz members of its launcher family.