Ariane 4 42L
Ariane 4 42L added two PAL liquid-propellant strap-on boosters to the three-stage core. All thirteen vehicles flown between 1993 and 2002 succeeded, and the configuration's published payload capacity was about 3,300 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Ariane 42LAriane-42L
- Family Name
- Ariane 4
- Full Name
- Ariane 4 42L
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
- Variant Name
- 42L
Details
- Description
- Ariane 4 42L added two PAL liquid-propellant strap-on boosters to the three-stage core. All thirteen vehicles flown between 1993 and 2002 succeeded, and the configuration's published payload capacity was about 3,300 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.
- First Flight Year
- 1,993
- Last Flight Year
- 2,002
- Operator
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- Ariane 4 42L standard propulsion
- Notes
- Ariane 4 42L adds two liquid Viking 6 strap-on boosters to the Ariane 4 40 three-stage core.
- Rocket Specs
- Payload Capacity Kg
- Gto
- 3,300
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 3
- Strap On Boosters Count
- 2
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- Creation Time
- July 14, 2026 at 17:41:09 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 08:41:25 UTC
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