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 |
Ariane 5 lifted off at 3:30 p.m. Eastern from Europe’s Guiana Space Center carrying Intelsat-39 and EDRS-C.
Arianespace conducted a launch on 2019-08-06 using an Ariane 5 rocket that orbited two satellites.
Arianespace is contracted to launch Eutelsat Quantum on an Ariane 5 rocket.
The 2019-08-06 mission was Arianespace’s seventh launch of the year and its third mission using the Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket.
The 2019-08-06 Ariane 5 launch was originally scheduled for 2019-07-24 and was delayed after the 2019-07-10 failure of a Vega rocket.
Intelsat-29e was launched in January 2016 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket and entered service about two months later.
The Ariane 5 mission carrying Intelsat-39 and EDRS-C was planned for 2025-07-24, and will be Arianespace’s seventh mission of the year counting the failed Vega mission.
A fifth-generation Global Xpress satellite built by Thales Alenia Space is scheduled to launch 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
An Ariane 5 rocket launched two communications satellites on 2019-06-20 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Viasat has a launch contract with Arianespace that was upgraded from an Ariane 5 to an Ariane 6 heavy-lift variant with four strap-on boosters.
Avanti’s Hylas-3 hosted payload is scheduled to launch in late July aboard Airbus and the European Space Agency’s European Data Relay Satellite C with the payload and host satellite launching on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Under the modified contract, the ViaSat-3 satellite was moved from an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle to the Ariane 64 (A64) launcher.
Inmarsat has a fifth Global Xpress satellite, GX-5 from Thales Alenia Space, scheduled to launch later 2019 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Hylas-3 hosted payload is scheduled to launch on 2019-07-24 on an Ariane 5 rocket.
Eutelsat’s Konnect satellite is scheduled to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in December 2019.
Eutelsat has a 75-gigabit-per-second Ka-band satellite named Konnect built by Thales Alenia Space that is slated to launch on an Ariane 5 rocket at the end of the year.
ArianeGroup aims to build the Ariane 6 at least 40 percent cheaper than the Ariane 5.
The JUICE mission is scheduled to launch in 2022 on an Ariane 5.
ESA and ArianeGroup plan 14 Ariane 6 missions during the Ariane 5-to-Ariane 6 transition scheduled from 2020 to 2023.
The first LM2100 satellite, SaudiGeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4, launched in February on a European Ariane 5 from Arianespace.