# List of Ariane launches (2020–2029)

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.
There are five Ariane 6 launches planned for 2025, with an eventual ramp to nine or ten launches per year.

## Launch statistics
### Rocket configurations

* Ariane 5 ECA+
* Ariane 62
* Ariane 64

### Launch outcomes & planned launches

* Failure
* Partial failure
* Success
* Planned

## Launch history
### Ariane 5 (2020–2023)

| Flight No. | Date and Time (UTC) | Version, Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customer | Launch outcome |
| VA251 | 16 January 2020 21:05 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5110 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Eutelsat Konnect GSAT-30 | 6,976 kg | GTO | Eutelsat ISRO | Success |
| Eutelsat communications satellite and ISRO communications satellite. ||||||||
| VA252 | 18 February 2020 22:18 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5111 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | JCSAT-17 GEO-KOMPSAT 2B | 9,236 kg | GTO | SKY Perfect JSAT KARI | Success |
| SKY Perfect JSAT communications satellite and KARI meteorological satellite. ||||||||
| VA253 | 15 August 2020 22:04 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5112 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Galaxy 30 MEV-2 BSAT-4b | 9,703 kg | GTO | Intelsat Northrop Grumman BSAT | Success |
| 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 LH$_2$ 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, K$_u$-band, K$_a$-band payloads, as well as a WAAS payload for a mass of 3,325 kilograms (7,330 lb). 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 2,326 kilograms (5,128 lb), 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 K$_u$-band transponders and mass of 3,520 kilograms (7,760 lb). ||||||||
| VA254 | 30 July 2021 21:00 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5113 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Eutelsat Quantum Star One D2 | 10,515 kg | GTO | Eutelsat Star One | Success |
| Brazilian Satellite operator Embratel and European Eutelsat were customers on the VA254 flight. 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 3,461 kilograms (7,630 lb) and a design lifetime of 15 years. 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 6,190 kilograms (13,650 lb) and a design lifetime of 15 years. The target orbit was a geosynchronous transfer orbit with an apogee altitude of 250 kilometres (160 mi) and a perigee altitude of 35,726 kilometres (22,199 mi), at an inclination of 3°. The mission was planned to last 36 minutes and 24 seconds. ||||||||
| VA255 | 24 October 2021 02:10 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5115 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | SES-17 Syracuse 4A | 10,264 kg | GTO | SES S.A. DGA | Success |
| SES S.A. communications satellite and Direction générale de l'armement military communications satellite. ||||||||
| VA256 | 25 December 2021 12:20 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5114 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | James Webb Space Telescope | 6,161.4 kg | Sun–Earth L$_2$ | NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI | Success |
| James Webb Space Telescope. ||||||||
| VA257 | 22 June 2022 21:50 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5116 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | MEASAT-3d GSAT-24 | 9,829 kg | GTO | MEASAT NSIL / Tata Play | Success |
| MEASAT communications satellite and NSIL communications satellite. ||||||||
| VA258 | 7 September 2022 21:45 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5117 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Eutelsat Konnect VHTS | 6,400 kg | GTO | Eutelsat | Success |
| Eutelsat communications satellite. ||||||||
| VA259 | 13 December 2022 20:30 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5118 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Galaxy 35 Galaxy 36 MTG-I1 | 10,972 kg | GTO | Intelsat EUMETSAT | Success |
| Two Intelsat communications satellites and EUMETSAT meteorological satellite. ||||||||
| VA260 | 14 April 2023 12:14 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5120 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) | 5,963 kg | Jovicentric | ESA | Success |
| Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. ||||||||
| VA261 | 5 July 2023 22:00 | Ariane 5 ECA+ 5119 | Guiana, ELA‑3 | Syracuse 4B (Comsat-NG 2) Heinrich Hertz (H2Sat) | 6,950 kg | GTO | DGA DLR | Success |
| Ariane 5's last mission. ||||||||

### Ariane 6 (2024+)

| Flight No. | Date and Time (UTC) | Version, Serial No. | Launch site | Payload | Payload mass | Orbit | Customer | Launch outcome |
| VA262 | 9 July 2024 19:00 | Ariane 62 L6001 | Guiana, ELA‑4 | Multiple rideshare payloads | 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) | LEO | Various | Partial failure |
| 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. ||||||||
| VA263 | 6 March 2025 16:24 | Ariane 62 L6002 | Guiana, ELA‑4 | CSO-3 | 3,655 kg (8,058 lb) | SSO | CNES / DGA | Success |
| French military reconnaissance satellite. First commercial launch for Ariane 6. After releasing the satellite following two burns of the upper stage, the Vinci engine successfully completed a third burn to reenter Earth's atmosphere, a maneuver that had failed in the first Ariane 6 flight. ||||||||

## Planned launches

| Date Time (UTC) | Type | Payload | Orbit | Customers |
| August 2025 | Ariane 62 VA264 | MetOp-SG-A1 | SSO | EUMETSAT |
| 2025 | Ariane 62 | Galileo FOC FM 29, 30 | MEO | ESA |
| Q4 2025 | Ariane 64 | Project Kuiper (30+ satellites) | LEO | Kuiper Systems |
| First Ariane 64 launch and first Ariane launch for Project Kuiper |||||
| 2H 2025 | Ariane 62 | Sentinel-1D | SSO | ESA |
| 2026 | Ariane 62 | Galileo FOC FM 28, 31 | MEO | ESA |
| 2026 | Ariane 62 | Galileo FOC FM 33, 34 | MEO | ESA |
| Q2 2026 | Ariane 64 | Intelsat 45 | GTO | Intelsat |
| June-August 2026 | Ariane 62 | MetOp-SG-B1 | SSO | EUMETSAT |
| Q3 2026 | Ariane 64 | MTG-I2 | GTO | EUMETSAT |
| Q4 2026 | Ariane 64 | Multi-Launch Service (MLS) #1 rideshare mission | GTO | TBA |
| 2026 | Ariane 6 | Galileo G2 1, 2 | MEO | ESA |
| 2026 | Ariane 64 | Intelsat 41, 44 | GTO | Intelsat |
| Q4 2026 | Ariane 62 | PLATO | Sun–Earth L$_2$ | ESA |
| 2026 | Ariane 64 | Uhura-1 (Node-1) | GTO | Skyloom |
| Q4 2027 | Ariane 64 | MLS #2 rideshare mission | GTO | TBA |
| 2027 | Ariane 64 | Optus-11 | GTO | Optus |
| 2027 | Ariane 64 | Earth Return Orbiter | Areocentric | ESA |
| 2027 | Ariane 6 | Galileo G2 3, 4 | MEO | ESA |
| 2027 | 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 | Ariane 62 | ARIEL, Comet Interceptor | Sun–Earth L$_2$ | ESA |
| 2031 | Ariane 64 | Argonaut Mission 1 | TLI | ESA |
| 2035 | Ariane 64 | Athena | Sun–Earth L$_2$, Halo orbit | ESA |
| 2035 | Ariane 6 | LISA | Heliocentric | ESA |
| TBD | Ariane 64 | 17 more launches of Project Kuiper (35–40 satellites) | LEO | Kuiper Systems |
| TBD | Ariane 62 | Electra | GTO | SES S.A. / ESA |
| TBD | Ariane 62 | Eutelsat ×3 | GTO | Eutelsat |