Ariane 40
FRA Wikipedia 
Built & Operated By
Aérospatiale
Government · founded 1970
Family
Ariane
variant 40
Maiden Flight
22 JAN 1990
About
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.
Vehicle Specifications
Height
55.6 m
Diameter
3.8 m
Launch Mass
245 T
Thrust
2,720 kN
Stages
2
Configuration
Expendable
Launch Record
Total Launches
7
Successful
7
Failed
0
Consecutive
7
Performance
To LEO
4,600 kg
To GTO
2,290 kg