Ariane 5
Ariane 5 was Europe's retired heavy-lift expendable launch-vehicle family, flown 117 times from the Guiana Space Centre between 1996 and 2023. Its G, G+, GS, ECA, and ES configurations served commercial communications, Earth observation, navigation, station logistics, and deep-space missions including Rosetta, BepiColombo, James Webb, and Juice.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Ariane-5A5Ariane 5 launch vehicle family
- Family Name
- Ariane 5
- Full Name
- Ariane 5
- Status
- retired
- Type
- rocket
Details
- Description
- Ariane 5 was Europe's retired heavy-lift expendable launch-vehicle family, flown 117 times from the Guiana Space Centre between 1996 and 2023. Its G, G+, GS, ECA, and ES configurations served commercial communications, Earth observation, navigation, station logistics, and deep-space missions including Rosetta, BepiColombo, James Webb, and Juice.
- Dimensions
- Diameter M
- 5.4
- First Flight Year
- 1,996
- Last Flight Year
- 2,023
- Operator
- Parent Vehicle Family
- Propulsion Configurations
- Entries
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Nested value
- Name
- Ariane 5 Generic standard propulsion
- Notes
- Representative Ariane 5 Generic configuration: one Vulcain 1 cryogenic core engine, two EAP solid boosters, and one Aestus storable-propellant upper-stage engine.
- Rocket Specs
- Reusability
- expendable
- Stages Count
- 2
- Strap On Boosters Count
- 2
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- Creation Time
- July 13, 2026 at 09:15:55 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 1, 2026 at 09:22:23 UTC
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