The Arianespace commercial launch consortium expects to carry out four more Ariane 5 missions this year, and perhaps a fifth, despite the multiple satellite- and rocket-related delays that have kept the rocket grounded since February, Arianespace Chief Executive Jean-Yves Le Gall said.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.