With all three vehicles, Arianespace, the company that runs Kourou, will now be able to offer satellite operators a ride for any type of spacecraft to all kinds of orbit - from the low, pole-crossing orbits used by Earth observation missions, to the high, geostationary locations favoured by big telecommunications platforms.
"Color deficiency is way low on the totem pole of accessibility problems, but when doing the right thing isn't hard, you should at least take that into account, " says Mr. Baio.