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Ariane 42L

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The Ariane 4 was an expendable space launch system, developed by the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was manufactured by ArianeGroup and marketed by Arianespace. Since its first flight on 15 June 1988 until the final flight on 15 February 2003, it attained 113 successful launches out of 116 total launches.

Ariane 42L vehicle

Specifications

Thrust
4,600 kN
Height
55.6 m
Diameter
3.8 m
Launch mass
367 t
Stages
2
LEO capacity
7,000 kg
GTO capacity
3,590 kg

Specifications from Launch Library. Figures the operator has not published are omitted.

Flight record

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Counted from padside's own launch record, the same basis as the stats page.

Flights

5 of 13

All 13 flights