Launch Vehicles
Ariane 4
Europe
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The most commercially successful launch vehicle of its era, flying 116 missions with a 97 percent success rate and dominating the global commercial satellite-launch market through the 1990s. Its modular design offered up to six configurations with different combinations of liquid and solid strap-on boosters.
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Vehicle ClassMedium-lift expendable launch vehicle 1 ManufacturerAerospatiale, under ESA/Arianespace contract 1 First Flight Date StatusRetired in 2003 after its final flight, succeeded by Ariane 5. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. European Space Agency: History
European Space Agencyhttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/History_of_the_Ariane_workhorseQuote, https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/History_of_the_Ariane_workhorse
Ariane 4 was the last version of the generation of launchers that all used the same technology.
1. European Space Agency: History
European Space AgencyOperated By: Arianespace
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