Ariane 5 - Wikipedia
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 ...
Goodbye to Ariane 5 | National Air and Space Museum
Goodbye to Ariane 5 | National Air and Space Museum
Europe's Ariane-5 rocket completes final launch - BBC
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...
ESA - Ariane 5 - European Space Agency
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 ...
Europe's Ariane 5 rocket launches 2 satellites on final mission …
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.
Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket to make its final launch this evening …
Jul 5, 2023 · Wednesday update: Unfavorable upper-level winds scrubbed a launch attempt of the European Space Agency's Ariane 5 rocket on Tuesday from the European spaceport in French Guiana.
Ending an era, Europe launches its final Ariane 5 rocket
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 ...
ESA - Ariane 5: the story behind the 100 launches...
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: Unrivaled performance and reliability - ArianeGroup
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 …
ESA - Ariane 5 Generic - European Space Agency
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.