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 ...

Jul 6, 2023 · The Ariane-5, Europe's heavy-lift rocket, has flown its final mission. The vehicle, which has underpinned the continent's access to space for nearly three decades, ended its career by taking up...

Jul 6, 2023 · After 27 years and 117 missions, ESA's heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket has launched into retirement with the successful lift off of Flight VA261 on July 5, 2023 at 22:00 GMT from the Centre Spatial...

Ariane 5 was Europe’s principal launch system for more than a quarter century, flying 117 times between 1996 and 2023 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Notable payloads include ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta mission, a dozen of Europe’s Galileo navigation satellites – orbited by just three launches – and the James Webb Space ...

Jul 6, 2023 · Europe’s venerable Ariane 5 rocket blasted off on its 117th and final flight Wednesday, successfully boosting two communications satellites into orbit but leaving the European space program ...

Jul 5, 2023 · Europe's Ariane 5 rocket launched for the final time today (July 5) after 27 years of service, sending two communications satellites to orbit.

Apr 14, 2023 · Ariane 5 has just made its 75th consecutive successful flight, thus beating the record set by Ariane 4. The launcher demonstrated its flexibility by placing 4 Galileo European navigation satellites in orbit during the course of the same flight.

Ariane 5 is today the world reference for launcher reliability, with a near-perfect mission success rate, and its modular (single/dual/multiple launch) capacity enables it to respond to a wide scope of mission specifications from classic communication satellites …

Sep 26, 2018 · This week saw the 100th launch of an Ariane 5 rocket. On 25 September, Ariane 5 flight VA243 carried the two satellites Horizons 3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 into space.

Ariane 5 launched satellites for communications, Earth observation and scientific research. Ariane 5 was used for launches into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), medium and low Earth orbits, Sun-synchronous orbits (SSO) and Earth-escape trajectories.