Ariane 44L

retired

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Specifications

Status: retired
Height: 58.7 m
Diameter: 3.8 m
Mass: 484,000 kg
Stages: 2
Thrust: 5,395 kN
Payload to LEO: 10,200 kg
Payload to GTO: 4,950 kg
First flight: 1989-06-05
Total launches: 40
Success / Fail: 39 / 1

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.

Payloads it launched

60 loaded