正当美国努力从几次运载火箭发射失败中恢复过来,并由于种种原因不能实施研制先进的新一代运载火箭计划时,欧洲的阿里安公司和前苏联的两个共和国(俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦)却联合起来,为在90年代后半期发射印度系列电信卫星提供服务,所使用的火箭为阿里安和质子号火箭。这次投标目前已送至印度空间研究组织。这是世界上两种主要运载火箭进行的前所未有的商业合作。 As the United States struggled to recover from the failure of several launch vehicles and for various reasons could not implement the development of an advanced new generation of carrier rocket programs, the European company Arian and the two former Soviet republics (Russia and Kazakhstan) united To serve the launch of a series of telecommunications satellites in India during the second half of the 1990s, the rockets used were Arian and Proton rockets. The tender has now been sent to the Indian Space Research Organization. This is the unprecedented commercial collaboration between the two main launch vehicles in the world.