Ariane 42L

Ariane family · Aérospatiale · Retired

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.

Specifications

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

Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.

Flight record

Flights

Launches with a definitive outcome

Success rate

100%

13 of 13

Current success streak

Landings

0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS

Fastest turnaround

—

Between consecutive booster flights

Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.