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Rocket file · LV-227

Ariane 44P

Aérospatiale · Ariane · RETIRED

Ariane 44P is an expendable launch vehicle built by Aérospatiale. It stands 56.9 m tall, lifts 6,500 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 4 April 1991. It has flown 15 times with 15 successes, a success rate of 100.0%. It has nothing on the Launch Library 2 schedule right now.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
Height56.9 m
Diameter3.8 m
Payload to LEO6,500 kg
Payload to GTO3,390 kg
Maiden flight4 April 1991
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights15
Successful15
Failed0
Success rate100.0%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant44P

About 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.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

EMPTY

Ariane 44P is retired, and no flight is filed.

All upcoming launches

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Ariane4
Ariane4uploaded by User:Rama , from NASA photo. · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
Ers1ariane4mod
Ers1ariane4modabrev · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
Ariane 44LP clone at Space Center Bremen
Ariane 44LP clone at Space Center BremenUser:Flor!an · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has Ariane 44P flown?
15 times, with 15 successes and 0 failures.
What is Ariane 44P's success rate?
100.0%. That's 15 successful flights out of 15 attempts.
How much can Ariane 44P lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 lists Ariane 44P at 6,500 kg to low Earth orbit and 3,390 kg to geostationary transfer orbit.
Is Ariane 44P reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Ariane 44P as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.