Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.
Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.
| Year | Historical missions | Forecast launches |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 |
| 2018 | 6 | 0 |
| 2019 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 |
Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.
| Variant | Orbit | Capacity | Altitude | Inclination | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No performance specsNo structured payload capacity rows are linked to this vehicle family. | |||||
Latest launched missions using variants in this family.
| Mission | Variant | Launch |
|---|---|---|
| H2SAT/Syracuse 4B | Ariane 5ECA+ | Jul 5, 2023 |
| JUICE Mission | Ariane 5ECA+ | Apr 14, 2023 |
| Galaxy 35/36/MTG-I1 | Ariane 5ECA+ | Dec 13, 2022 |
| Eutelsat Konnect VHTS Mission |
Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.
| Variant | Stages | Missions | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Ariane 5ECA | Not stated | 72 | Retired |
Ariane 5ECA+ | Not stated | 12 | Retired |
Ariane 5ES | Not stated | 8 | Retired |
Ariane 5G | Not stated | 16 | Retired |
Ariane 5ECA+ |
| Sep 7, 2022 |
| Measat 3D/GSAT-24 | Ariane 5ECA+ | Jun 22, 2022 |
| JWST Mission | Ariane 5ECA+ | Dec 25, 2021 |
| SES-17/Syracuse 4A | Ariane 5ECA+ | Oct 24, 2021 |
| Star One D2/Eutelsat Q | Ariane 5ECA+ | Jul 30, 2021 |
Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.
| Mission | Variant | Announced |
|---|---|---|
No forecasted missionsNo upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family. | ||
Ariane 5G+ | Not stated | 3 | Retired |
Ariane 5GS | Not stated | 6 | Retired |
MTG-S1, a sounding satellite that previously had a firm Ariane 5 launch contract, is scheduled to launch in 2023 on an Ariane 6 rocket.
Eumetsat signed a contract with Arianespace in 2015 to launch two or three Meteosat Third Generation satellites on Ariane 5 rockets between 2019 and 2023.
MTG-I2, which had an Ariane 5 contract option, is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 6 rocket in 2025.
Arianespace performed two Ariane 5 launches early in 2020 that carried either commercial communications satellites or government satellites whose launches were commercially competed.
Arianespace planned to resume Ariane 5 launches in late July 2020 with satellites for Intelsat and B-SAT.
NASA maintained optimism that JWST could still launch in 2021 on an Ariane 5 from French Guiana.
Intelsat’s Galaxy-30 satellite was scheduled to launch in summer 2020 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Arianespace’s heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket launches exclusively from the Guiana Space Center, which is operated by the French space agency CNES.
MEV-2 was scheduled to launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket in the coming months but may experience delays because of the coronavirus pandemic.
ArianeGroup is building the Ariane 6 heavy-lift launcher to replace Ariane 5.
Arsat signed a contract with Arianespace in 2019 to launch a third satellite on an Ariane 5, but that satellite was never built.
Each of Arsat-1 and Arsat-2 weighed roughly 3,000 kg and launched on Ariane 5 rockets in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Arianespace launches the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and light-lift Vega rockets exclusively from the Guiana Space Center.
The SES-17 geostationary satellite ordered from Thales Alenia Space is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Ariane 6 is designed to cost 40% to 50% less than Ariane 5.
JCSAT-17, one of the first three commercial LM2100 satellites, launched on 2020-02-18 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket operated by Arianespace.
An Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at 5:18 p.m. Eastern from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana with Sky Perfect JSAT’s JCSAT-17 satellite and KARI’s GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite.
GEO-KOMPSAT-2B is the second satellite in a two-satellite environmental program following GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, which monitors meteorological and space weather and launched on an Ariane 5 in December 2018.
Eutelsat-7C was built by Maxar and launched in June on an Ariane 5 rocket.
ArianeGroup is building 15 Ariane 6 rockets: one for the rocket’s maiden flight and 14 in bulk to cover the 2020 to 2023 transition away from the Ariane 5.