- Family: Ariane
- Length: 49.13 m
- Diameter: 3.8 m
- Launch Mass: 215 T
The Ariane 2 was manufactured by Aérospatiale with the first launch on 1986-05-31. Ariane 2 has 5 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 6 launches. Ariane 2 was an expendable space launch vehicle, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) between 1986 and 1989 as part of Ariane family of rockets. The principal manufacturer for the Ariane 2 was Aérospatiale, while the lead agency for its development was the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French government’s space agency.
