Ariane 5 ES

retired

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Specifications

Status: retired
Height: 45.7 m
Diameter: 5.4 m
Mass: 746,000 kg
Stages: 2
Thrust: 11,400 kN
Payload to LEO: 21,000 kg
First flight: 2008-03-09
Total launches: 8
Success / Fail: 8 / 0

Ariane 5 is a retired European heavy-lift space launch vehicle operated by Arianespace for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was launched from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana. It was used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), low Earth orbit (LEO) or further into space. The launch vehicle had a streak of 82 consecutive successful launches between 9 April 2003 and 12 December 2017. In development since 2014, Ariane 6, a direct successor system was first launched in 2024.