ESC-A launch table

ESC-A launch table at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's space port (French Guiana).
Ariane-5 is an ESA programme for which ESA delegated management responsibility to CNES.
Ariane-5 ESC-A, the first step of the Ariane 5 Plus Programme planned for mid-2002.
This launcher, with its Ariane-5 Evolution lower stage, will have a cryogenic upper stage using the same engine as that used in the 3rd stage of the Ariane-4. This new version of Ariane 5 will be able to launch payloads of up to a 10 tonnes into geostationary transfer orbit.