Ariane family

Ariane 44P

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 flown15

Success rate100%15/15

Payload to LEO6,500kg

Maiden flight1991-04-04

Peak year19974 flights

Ariane 44P is built by Aérospatiale of France. Company background, funding, contracts and news for this operator are tracked on Space Index. It first flew on 4 April 1991 and last flew on 25 September 2001.

Flight record

15 records

100% success rate15 of 15 flown

1991peak 1997 · 4 flights2001

First flight1991-04-04

Latest flight2001-09-25

Failures0

Consecutive successes15

Fastest turnaround43d 7h

Payload

Per mission profile

Low Earth orbit	6,500kg
Geostationary transfer orbit	3,390kg

Vehicle

44P spec

Stages	3
Length	56.9m
Diameter	3.8m
Launch mass	357t
Liftoff thrust	5,140kN
Maiden flight	1991-04-04
Reusable	No

Pads used

1 pad

Ariane Launch Area 215

Orbits delivered

3 orbits

Geostationary Orbit12Geosynchronous Orbit2Elliptical Orbit1

Launch history

15 launches

Date	Mission	Pad	Orbit	Outcome
2001-09-25	Ariane 44P \| Atlantic Bird 2	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geosynchronous Orbit	Success
2001-01-10	Ariane 44P \| Turksat 2A	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geosynchronous Orbit	Success
2000-09-06	Ariane 44P \| Eutelsat W1	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1998-08-25	Ariane 44P \| ST-1	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1998-04-28	Ariane 44P \| Nilesat 101 & BSat 1b	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-12-02	Ariane 44P \| JCSAT 1B & Equator-S	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-08-08	Ariane 44P \| PAS 6	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-06-25	Ariane 44P \| INTELSAT 802	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1997-03-01	Ariane 44P \| INTELSAT 801	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1996-06-15	Ariane 44P \| INTELSAT 709	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1996-02-05	Ariane 44P \| N-Star b	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1995-11-17	Ariane 44P \| ISO	Ariane Launch Area 2	Elliptical Orbit	Success
1995-08-29	Ariane 44P \| N-STAR a	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1991-09-26	Ariane 44P \| Anik E1	Ariane Launch Area 2	Geostationary Orbit	Success
1991-04-04	Ariane 44P \| Anik E2	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.