See main article: List of Ariane launches.
This is a list of launches performed or scheduled to be performed by Ariane launch vehicles between 2020 and 2029. During this time, the Ariane 5 was retired in favour of the Ariane 6 rocket.
As of July 2024, some of these are actual, and some are planned.
Source: Arianespace Press Kits [1]
| Flight No. | Date Time (UTC) | Rocket type Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customers | Launch outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA251 | 21:05 | 5110 | Guiana ELA-3 | Eutelsat Konnect GSAT-30 | 6,976 kg | GTO | Eutelsat ISRO | |
| Eutelsat communications satellite and ISRO communications satellite. | ||||||||
| VA252 | 22:18 | 5111 | Guiana ELA-3 | JCSAT-17 GEO-KOMPSAT 2B | 9,236 kg | GTO | SKY Perfect JSAT KARI | |
| SKY Perfect JSAT communications satellite and KARI meteorological satellite. | ||||||||
| VA253 | 22:04 | 5112 | Guiana ELA-3 | Galaxy 30 MEV-2 BSAT-4b | 9,703 kg | GTO | Intelsat Northrop Grumman BSAT | |
| Flight VA253 was planned to launch in June 2020. However, launch campaign activities were significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To prevent the spread in French Guiana and protect Centre Spatial Guyanais employees, all launch activities were suspended on 16 March 2020. Operations for Vega flight VV16 and Ariane 5 flight VA253 could not resume until 28 April 2020. VA253 activities were listed among the top priorities at the reopening of the Guiana Space Center on 11 May 2020. The launch was rescheduled for end of July 2020 to place the satellites into a geostationary transfer orbit from which they will eventually be placed into geostationary orbit through their own propulsion. The flight was again aborted on 28 July 2020, due to a "red" warning in the system, resulting from a sensor problem related to LH2 tank on the core stage. American satellite operator Intelsat and Japanese Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) are the customers for Ariane flight VA253. Galaxy 30 is a communications satellite built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK) on the GEOStar-2 platform for Intelsat. It has C-band, Ku-band, Ka-band payloads, as well as a WAAS payload for a mass of . Built in satellite manufacturing facility in Dulles, Virginia, it will primarily serve video markets in North America. As per Intelsat/Arianespace contract announced in January 2018, Galaxy 30 would share the upper berth of the Ariane 5 ECA rocket with MEV-2, which is a Northrop Grumman second satellite servicing vehicle, identical to MEV-1. With a mass of, it would begin a five-year mission to extend the lifetime of Intelsat 10-02. MEV-2 received FCC authorization on 25 March 2020. BSAT-4b is the second communications satellite of the fourth generation B-SAT, built by SSL (company) on its SSL 1300 platform. It has 24 Ku-band transponders and mass of . | ||||||||
| Flight No. | Date Time (UTC) | Rocket type Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customers | Launch outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA254 | 21:00 | 5113 | Guiana ELA-3 | Eutelsat Quantum Star One D2 | 10,515 kg | GTO | Eutelsat Star One | |
| Brazilian Satellite operator Embratel and European Eutelsat were customers on the VA254 flight.[2] Eutelsat Quantum is a European re-programmable telecommunications satellite equipped with Ku-band payload, developed in a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA), Eutelsat and Airbus Defence and Space. It had a launch mass of approximately and a design lifetime of 15 years.[3] Star One D2 is a telecommunications satellite equipped with C-, Ku-, Ka- and X-band payloads for high-speed telecommunications, television broadcast and fast broadband in South America, Mexico, Central America, and parts of the Atlantic Ocean. It had a launch mass of approximately and a design lifetime of 15 years. The target orbit was a geosynchronous transfer orbit with an apogee altitude of and a perigee altitude of, at an inclination of 3°. The mission was planned to last 36 minutes and 24 seconds. | ||||||||
| VA255 | 02:10 | 5115 | Guiana ELA-3 | SES-17 Syracuse 4A | 10,264 kg | GTO | SES S.A. DGA | |
| SES S.A. communications satellite and Direction générale de l'armement military communications satellite. | ||||||||
| VA256 | 12:20 | 5114 | Guiana ELA-3 | James Webb Space Telescope | 6,161.4 kg | Sun–Earth | NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI | |
| James Webb Space Telescope. | ||||||||
| Flight No. | Date Time (UTC) | Rocket type Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customers | Launch outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA257 | 21:50 | 5116 | Guiana ELA-3 | MEASAT-3d GSAT-24 | 9,829 kg | GTO | MEASAT NSIL / Tata Play | |
| MEASAT communications satellite and NSIL communications satellite. | ||||||||
| VA258 | 21:45 | 5117 | Guiana ELA-3 | Eutelsat Konnect VHTS | 6,400 kg | GTO | Eutelsat | |
| Eutelsat communications satellite. | ||||||||
| VA259 | 20:30 | 5118 | Guiana ELA-3 | Galaxy 35 Galaxy 36 MTG-I1 | 10,972 kg | GTO | Intelsat EUMETSAT | |
| Two Intelsat communications satellites and EUMETSAT meteorological satellite. | ||||||||
| Flight No. | Date Time (UTC) | Rocket type Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customers | Launch outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA260 | 12:14 | 5120 | Guiana ELA-3 | Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) | 5,963 kg | Jovicentric | ESA | |
| Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. | ||||||||
| VA261 | 5 July 2023 22:00 | 5119 | Guiana ELA-3 | Syracuse 4B (Comsat-NG 2)[4] Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat) | 6,950 kg[5] | GTO | DGA DLR | |
| Ariane 5's last mission.[6] | ||||||||
| Flight No. | Date Time (UTC) | Rocket type Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customers | Launch outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA262 | 19:00 | L6001[7] | Guiana ELA-4 | Multiple rideshare payloads | 1,600 kg[8] | LEO | Various | |
| Maiden flight of Ariane 6. It was a flight test carrying a mass simulator plus a number of small cubesats and other experiments as rideshare payloads. Rocket launched successfully to orbit and upper stage performed a second burn to release cubesats. During attempt to perform a third burn to deorbit the upper stage, the rocket's auxiliary propulsion system failed. This failure prevented the upper stage from relighting.[9] [10] [11] [12] | ||||||||
| Date Time (UTC) | Type | Payload | Orbit | Customers | Launch status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 2024 | Ariane 62 | CSO-3 | SSO | CNES / DGA | |||
| French military spy satellite. Despite the problem with the APU on Ariane 6's first flight, an Arianespace official said they are still "perfectly on track now to make the second launch this year". | |||||||
| 2025[13] [14] | Ariane 62 | Galileo FOC FM 29, 30 | MEO | ESA | |||
| 2025 | Ariane 62 | Galileo FOC FM 31, 32 | MEO | ESA | |||
| 2025 | Ariane 62 | Galileo FOC FM 33, 34 | MEO | ESA | |||
| 2025[15] | Ariane 64 | Optus-11 | GTO | Optus | |||
| Q2 2026[16] | Ariane 64[17] | MTG-I2[18] | GTO | EUMETSAT | |||
| H1 2026[19] | Ariane 64 | Intelsat 45 | GTO | Intelsat | |||
| Q4 2026[20] | Ariane 64 | Multi-Launch Service (MLS) #1 rideshare mission | GTO | TBA | |||
| 2026[21] | Ariane 6 | Galileo G2 1, 2 | MEO | ESA | |||
| 2026[22] [23] | Ariane 64 | Intelsat 41, 44 | GTO | Intelsat | |||
| 2026[24] | Ariane 62[25] | PLATO | ESA | ||||
| 2026[26] [27] | Ariane 64 | Uhura-1 (Node-1)[28] | GTO | Skyloom | |||
| Q4 2027 | Ariane 64 | MLS #2 rideshare mission | GTO | TBA | |||
| 2027[29] | Ariane 64 | Earth Return Orbiter | Areocentric | ESA | |||
| 2027 | Ariane 6 | Galileo G2 3, 4 | MEO | ESA | |||
| 2027[30] | Ariane 6 | Hellas Sat 5 | GTO | Hellas Sat | |||
| Q4 2028 | Ariane 64 | MLS #3 rideshare mission | GTO | TBA | |||
| Q3 2029 | Ariane 64 | MLS #4 rideshare mission | GTO | TBA | |||
| 2029[31] | Ariane 62 | ARIEL, Comet Interceptor | ESA | ||||
| 2031[32] | Ariane 64 | Argonaut Mission 1 | TLI | ESA | |||
| 2035[33] | Ariane 64[34] | Athena | Sun–Earth, Halo orbit | ESA | |||
| 2035[35] | Ariane 6 | LISA | Heliocentric | ESA | |||
| TBD[36] | Ariane 64 | 18 launches of Project Kuiper (35–40 satellites)[37] | LEO | Kuiper Systems | |||
| TBD[38] | Ariane 62 | Electra | GTO | SES S.A. / ESA | |||
| TBD | Ariane 62 | Eutelsat ×5 | GTO | ||||