Vehicle file · LV-226
Ariane 44LP
Ariane 44LP is an expendable orbital launch vehicle built by Aérospatiale. It stands 58.4 m tall, lifts 8,000 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 15 June 1988. It has flown 26 times with 25 successes, a success rate of 96.2%. It has no flight on the public manifest at the moment.
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About Ariane 44LP
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.
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Manifest
No Ariane 44LP flight is filed in the current manifest window. Missions appear here the moment a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesCommon questions
- How many times has Ariane 44LP flown?
- Ariane 44LP has flown 26 orbital missions, with 25 successes and 1 failures.
- What is Ariane 44LP's success rate?
- Ariane 44LP has a success rate of 96.2%, from 25 successful flights out of 26 attempts.
- When is the next Ariane 44LP launch?
- Ariane 44LP has no flight on the public manifest at the moment. Scheduled missions appear here as soon as a launch date is filed.
- How much can Ariane 44LP lift to orbit?
- Ariane 44LP is rated for 8,000 kg to low Earth orbit and 4,170 kg to geostationary transfer orbit. These are the operator's published maximums and assume an expendable or fully optimised configuration.
- Is Ariane 44LP reusable?
- No. Ariane 44LP is expendable: every stage is discarded during flight and nothing is recovered for reflight.