Ariane family

Ariane 42L

The Ariane 4 was an expendable space launch system, developed by the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, for the European Space Agency (ESA). It was manufactured by ArianeGroup and marketed by Arianespace. Since its first flight on 15 June 1988 until the final flight on 15 February 2003, it attained 113 successful launches out of 116 total launches.

Flights flown13

Success rate100%13/13

Payload to LEO7,000kg

Maiden flight1993-03-12

Peak year19953 flights

Ariane 42L is built by Aérospatiale of France. Company background, funding, contracts and news for this operator are tracked on Space Index. It first flew on 12 May 1993 and last flew on 23 January 2002.

Flight record

13 records

100% success rate13 of 13 flown

1993peak 1995 · 3 flights2002

First flight1993-05-12

Latest flight2002-01-23

Failures0

Consecutive successes13

Fastest turnaround16d 25m

Payload

Per mission profile

Low Earth orbit	7,000kg
Geostationary transfer orbit	3,590kg

Vehicle

42L spec

Stages	2
Length	55.6m
Diameter	3.8m
Launch mass	367t
Liftoff thrust	4,600kN
Maiden flight	1993-03-12
Reusable	No

Pads used

1 pad

Ariane Launch Area 213

Orbits delivered

2 orbits

Geostationary Orbit12Geostationary Transfer Orbit1

Launch history

13 launches

Date	Mission	Pad	Orbit	Outcome
2002-01-23	Ariane 42L \| Insat 3C	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Transfer Orbit	Success
2000-10-06	Ariane 42L \| N-SAT-110	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
2000-04-19	Ariane 42L \| Galaxy 4R	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
2000-01-25	Ariane 42L \| Galaxy 10R	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1998-12-22	Ariane 42L \| PAS 6B	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1998-12-06	Ariane 42L \| Satmex 5	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-12-22	Ariane 42L \| INTELSAT 804	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-09-23	Ariane 42L \| INTELSAT 803	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1995-10-19	Ariane 42L \| Astra 1E	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1995-09-24	Ariane 42L \| Telstar 402R	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1995-08-03	Ariane 42L \| PAS 4	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1994-09-09	Ariane 42L \| Telstar 402	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1993-05-12	Ariane 42L \| Astra 1C & Arsene	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success

Specifications from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs, launch records from Space Index. Derived figures are computed here; see sources and method.