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
- 3,944 kN
- Height
- 55.9 m
- Diameter
- 3.8 m
- Launch mass
- 323 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 6,000 kg
- GTO capacity
- 2,990 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
15
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
93.3%
14 of 15
Current success streak
8
Landings
0
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.
Launches
- Ariane 42P | SPOT 5 — Success
- Ariane 42P | Mugunghwa 3 — Success
- Ariane 42P | Telkom 1 — Success
- Ariane 42P | Insat 2E — Success
- Ariane 42P | Hot Bird 4 — Success