ariane_5 | maidenflight | 2005-08-11 <sep> ariane 5 is a european heavy-lift space launch vehicle developed and operated by arianespace for the european space agency (esa) it is launched from the centre spatial guyanais (csg) in french guiana it has been used to deliver payloads into geostationary transfer orbit (gto) or low earth orbit (leo) the launch vehicle had a streak of 82 consecutive successful launches between 9 april 2003 and 12 december 2017 since 2014, ariane 6, a direct successor system, is in developmentthe system was designed as an expendable launch system by the centre national d'études spatiales (cnes), the french government's space agency, in cooperation with various european partners 
the ariane 5 had its first voyage august 11. 2005.no information