Arianespace, a commercial company that sells the Ariane rockets, is based there.
There, it will be bolted to an Ariane rocket and hurled into orbit.
UH 25 was developed after a disaster during flight 2 of the Ariane 1 rocket.
The satellite was successfully launched on November 12, 1997 by Ariane 4 rocket.
It was placed launched on 25 August 1998, by an Ariane 4 rocket.
No larger Ariane rocket is scheduled to be available until at least 1995.
It was launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket 2003-06-11.
The Ariane 4 rockets, developed at a cost of $575 million, marked a major advance in propulsion capability.
This has included the development of the Ariane rockets, which by 1985 had captured over 40 percent of commercial launch market in the free world.
The spacecraft was launched on 2 March 2004 by an Ariane 5 rocket.