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Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 3
Ariane Launch Complex 3
ELA-3 before the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
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Launch siteGuiana Space Centre
Location5°14′20″N 52°46′05″W / 5.239°N 52.768°W / 5.239; -52.768
Time zoneUTC−03 (GFT)
Short nameELA-3
OperatorAvio
Total launches117
Launch history
StatusInactive
First launch4 June 1996
Ariane 5 G (CLUSTER)
Last launch5 July 2023
Ariane 5 ECA (Syracuse 4B & Heinrich Hertz)
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rockets		Future: Vega E
Retired: Ariane 5
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ELA-3 (French: Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 3, lit. 'Ariane Launch Complex 3') is a launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The complex was first used in June 1996 in support of the now retired Ariane 5 rocket. It is currently being refurbished to support Vega E launches.[1] The complex is 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) in size.[2]

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Launch chart

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No. Date Time (UTC) Launch vehicle Configuration Payload Result Remarks
1 4 June 1996 12:34 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Cluster Failure Maiden flight of Ariane 5 and first launch from ELA-3. Software error stemming from Ariane 4 legacy code caused vehicle to veer off course and disintegrate 37 seconds after launch.[3]
2 30 October 1997 13:43 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G MaqSat-H, TEAMSAT, MaqSat-B, and YES Partial failure[4] First Ariane 5 flight to reach orbit. Upper stage underperformance led to payloads being placed in lower than planned orbit.
3 21 October 1998 16:37 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G MaqSat 3 and ARD Success First fully successful Ariane 5 launch. Contained ARD as a rideshare, designed to test reentry.
4 10 December 1999 14:32 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G XMM-Newton Success Part of Horizon 2000 program, a space telescope designed to perform x-ray astronomy.
5 21 March 2000 23:28 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G INSAT-3B and AsiaStar Success
6 14 September 2000 22:54 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Astra 2B and GE-7 Success
7 16 November 2000 01:07 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G PAS-1R, Amsat P3D, STRV 1C and STRV 1D Success
8 20 December 2000 00:26 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Astra 2D, GE-8 and LDREX Success
9 8 March 2001 22:51 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Eutelsat 28A and BSAT-2a Success
10 12 July 2001 22:58 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Artemis and BSAT-2b Partial failure[5] Upper stage underperformance led to payloads being placed into useless orbits. Artemis successfully recovered, BSAT-2b lost.
11 1 March 2002 01:07 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Envisat Success Earth observation satellite designed to succeed the two European Remote-Sensing Satellites. Largest civilian observation satellite launched.
12 5 July 2002 23:22 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Stellat 5 and N-Star c Success
13 28 August 2002 22:45 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Atlantic Bird 1 and Meteosat 8 Success
14 11 December 2002 22:22 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Hot Bird 7 and Stentor Failure[6] First stage engine failure led to vehicle's destruction by way of range safety.
15 9 April 2003 22:52 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G INSAT-3A and Galaxy 12 Success
16 11 June 2003 22:38 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G Optus and Defence C1 and BSAT-2c Success
17 27 September 2003 23:14 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G INSAT-3E, eBird 1 and SMART-1 Success
18 2 March 2004 07:17 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G+ Rosetta Success Part of the Horizon 2000 program, designed to explore comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. First spacecraft to orbit (and with Philae, first to land on) a comet, and first non-NASA spacecraft to reach the outer solar system. First Ariane 5 launch into heliocentric orbit.
19 18 July 2004 00:44 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G+ Anik F2 Success
20 18 December 2004 16:26 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 G+ Helios 2A, Essaim 1, 2, 3, 4, PARASOL and Nanosat 01 Success
21 12 February 2005 21:03 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA XTAR-EUR, Maqsat-B2 and Sloshsat Success
22 11 August 2005 08:20 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 GS Thaicom 4 Success
23 13 October 2005 22:32 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 GS Syracuse 3A and Galaxy 15 Success
24 16 November 2005 23:46 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Spaceway F2 and TELKOM-2 Success
25 21 December 2005 22:33 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 GS INSAT-4A and Meteosat 9 Success
26 11 March 2006 22:32 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Spainsat and Hot Bird 7A Success[7]
27 27 May 2006 21:09 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Satmex 6 and Thaicom 5 Success[8]
28 11 August 2006 22:15 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA JCSAT-10 and Syracuse 3B Success[9]
29 13 October 2006 20:56 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA DirecTV-9S, Optus D1 and LDREX-2 Success[10]
30 8 December 2006 22:08 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA WildBlue 1 and AMC-18 Success[11]
31 11 March 2007 22:03 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Skynet 5A and INSAT-4B Success[12]
32 4 May 2007 22:29 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Astra 1L and Galaxy 17 Success[13]
33 14 August 2007 23:44 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Spaceway-3 and BSAT-3A Success[14]
34 5 October 2007 22:02 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 GS Intelsat 11 and Optus D2 Success[15]
35 14 November 2007 22:06 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Skynet 5B and Star One C1 Success[16]
36 21 December 2007 21:41 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 GS RASCOM-QAF 1 and Horizons-2 Success[17]
37 9 March 2008 04:03 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES ATV-1 "Jules Verne" Success[18] First flight of the Automated Transfer Vehicle, going to the International Space Station. Made Korou the third launch site (after Baikonur and Cape Canaveral/KSC) to launch a payload to the ISS.
38 18 April 2008 22:17 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Star One C2 and Vinasat-1 Success[19]
39 12 June 2008 22:05 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Turksat 3A and Skynet 5C Success[20]
40 7 July 2008 21:47 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Badr-6 and ProtoStar I Success[21]
41 14 August 2008 20:44 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA AMC-21 and Superbird 7 Success[22]
42 20 December 2008 22:35 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat W2M and Hot Bird 9 Success[23]
43 12 February 2009 22:09 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Hot Bird 10, NSS-9, Spirale A, and Spirale B Success[24]
44 14 May 2009 13:12 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Herschel Space Observatory and Planck Success[25] Both part of the Horizon 2000 program, both space telescopes. Herschel designed to perform infrared astronomy, Planck designed to measure the cosmic microwave background.
45 1 July 2009 19:52 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA TerreStar-1 Success[26]
46 21 August 2009 22:09 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA JCSAT-12 and Optus D3 Success[27]
47 1 October 2009 21:59 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Amazonas 2 and COMSATBw-1 Success[28]
48 29 October 2009 20:00 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA NSS-12 and Thor 6 Success[29]
49 18 December 2009 16:26 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 GS Helios 2B Success[30]
50 21 May 2010 22:01 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Astra 3B and COMSATBw-2 Success[31]
51 16 June 2010 21:41 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Arabsat-5A and COMS-1 Success[32]
52 4 August 2010 20:59 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Nilesat 201 and RASCOM-QAF 1R Success[33]
53 28 October 2010 21:51 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat W3B and BSAT-3b Success[34]
54 26 November 2010 18:39 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 17 and HYLAS 1 Success[35]
55 29 December 2010 21:27 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Koreasat 6 and HispaSat-1E Success[36]
56 16 February 2011 21:50 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES ATV-2 "Johannes Kepler" Success[37] ISS resupply flight.
57 22 April 2011 21:37 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Yahsat 1A and Intelsat New Dawn Success[38]
58 20 May 2011 20:38 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA ST-2 and GSAT-8 Success[39]
59 6 August 2011 22:52 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Astra 1N and BSAT 3c Success[40]
60 21 September 2011 21:38 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Arabsat-5C and SES-2 Success[41]
61 23 March 2012 04:34 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES ATV-3 "Edoardo Amaldi" Success[42] ISS resupply flight.
62 15 May 2012 22:13 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2 Success[43]
63 5 July 2012 21:36 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA EchoStar XVII and MSG-3 Success[44]
64 2 August 2012 20:54 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 20 and HYLAS 2 Success[45]
65 28 September 2012 21:18 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Astra 2F and GSAT-10 Success[46]
66 10 November 2012 21:05 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat 21B and Star One C3 Success[47]
67 19 December 2012 21:49 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Skynet 5D and MEXSAT-3 Success[48]
68 7 February 2013 21:36 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Amazonas-3 and Azerspace-1/Africasat-1a Success[49]
69 5 June 2013 21:52 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES ATV-4 "Albert Einstein" Success[50] ISS resupply flight.
70 25 July 2013 19:54 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Alphasat I-XL and INSAT-3D Success[51]
71 29 August 2013 20:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat 25B / Es'hail 1 and GSAT-7 Success[52]
72 6 February 2014 21:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA ABS-2 and Athena-Fidus Success[53]
73 22 March 2014 22:04 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Astra 5B and Amazonas 4A Success[54]
74 29 July 2014 23:47 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES ATV-5 "Georges Lemaître" Success[55] ISS resupply flight. Final launch of the Automated Transfer Vehicle.
75 11 September 2014 22:05 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA MEASAT 3b and Optus 10 Success[56]
76 16 October 2014 21:43 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 30 and ARSAT-1 Success[57]
77 6 December 2014 20:40 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA DirecTV-14 and GSAT-16 Success[58]
78 26 April 2015 20:00 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Thor 7 and SICRAL-2 Success[59]
79 27 May 2015 21:16 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA DirecTV-15 and Sky Mexico 1 Success[60]
80 15 July 2015 21:42 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Star One C4 and MSG-4 Success[61]
81 20 August 2015 20:34 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat 8 West B and Intelsat 34 Success[62]
82 30 September 2015 20:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA NBN Co 1A and ARSAT-2 Success[63]
83 10 November 2015 21:34 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Arabsat-6B and GSAT-15 Success[64]
84 27 January 2016 23:20 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 29e Success[65]
85 9 March 2016 05:20 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat 65 West A Success[66]
86 18 June 2016 21:38 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA EchoStar 18 and BRIsat Success
87 24 August 2016 22:16 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 33e and Intelsat 36 Success
88 5 October 2016 20:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Sky Muster II and GSAT-18 Success
89 17 November 2016 10:07 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES Galileo FOC M6 Success Part of the Galileo satellite navigation system. First Galileo launch on Ariane 5 and from a launch vehicle besides Soyuz.
90 21 December 2016 17:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Star One D1 and JCSAT-15 Success
91 14 February 2017 18:39 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 32e / SkyBrasil-1 and Telkom 3S Success
92 4 May 2017 21:50 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Koreasat 7 and SGDC-1 Success
93 1 June 2017 23:45 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA ViaSat-2 and Eutelsat 172B Success
94 28 June 2017 21:15 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA EuropaSat / Hellas Sat 3 and GSAT-17 Success
95 29 September 2017 21:56 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Intelsat 37e, BSAT-4a Success
96 12 December 2017 18:36 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES Galileo FOC M7 Success Part of the Galileo satellite navigation system.
97 25 January 2018 22:20 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA SES-14 (with GOLD) and Al Yah 3 Partial failure Part of the Explorers program for GOLD, designed to study the effects of space weather on Earth's atmosphere. First dedicated NASA mission to launch from Korou. Azimuth error led to vehicle heading off course and losing telemetry. SES-14/GOLD recovered without affecting mission, Al Yah 3 recovered at cost of significant reduction to lifespan.
98 5 April 2018 21:34 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Superbird-8 / DSN-1 and HYLAS-4 Success
99 25 July 2018 11:25 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ES Galileo FOC M8 Success Part of the Galileo satellite navigation system.
100 25 September 2018 22:38 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Horizons-3e and Azerspace-2 / Intelsat 38 Success
101 20 October 2018 01:45 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA BepiColombo Success Part of the Horizon 2000 Plus program, designed to explore Mercury and study its magnetic field, magnetosphere, and composition. Joint mission between ESA and JAXA. First non-NASA spacecraft to visit the planet.
102 4 December 2018 20:37 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA GSAT-11 and GEO-KOMPSAT 2A Success
103 5 February 2019 21:01 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA GSAT-31 and Hellas Sat 4 / SaudiGeoSat 1 Success
104 20 June 2019 21:43 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA DirecTV-16 and Eutelsat 7C Success
105 6 August 2019 19:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA EDRS-C/HYLAS-3 and Intelsat 39 Success
106 26 November 2019 21:23 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Inmarsat-5 F5 and TIBA-1 Success
107 16 January 2020 21:05 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat Konnect and GSAT-30 Success
108 18 February 2020 22:18 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA JCSAT-17 and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B Success
109 15 August 2020 22:04 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA BSAT-4b, Galaxy 30, MEV-2 Success
110 30 July 2021 21:00 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat Quantum and Star One D2 Success
111 21 October 2021 02:10 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA SES-17 and Syracuse 4A Success
112 25 December 2021 12:20 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA James Webb Space Telescope Success Part of the Large Strategic Science Missions, a space telescope aimed to perform visible light astronomy and infrared astronomy. Joint mission between NASA, ESA, and the CSA. Designed to act as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
113 23 June 2022 21:50 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24 Success
114 7 September 2022 21:45 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Eutelsat Konnect VHTS Success
115 23 December 2022 20:30 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Galaxy 35 & 36 and MTG-I1 Success
116 14 April 2023 12:14 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Success Part of the Cosmic Vision program, designed to explore Jupiter and its moons such as Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Complements NASA's Europa Clipper. Slated to be first Non-NASA spacecraft to visit an outer Solar System planet and the first to orbit a moon besides the Moon. Last Ariane 5 flight into heliocentric orbit.
117 5 July 2023 22:00 Ariane 5 Ariane 5 ECA Syracuse 4B and Heinrich Hertz Success Final launch of the Ariane 5. Most recent flight from ELA-3.

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