Ariane 5 characteristics

• Mass at lift-off : 750 to 780 tonnes
• GTO orbit positioning capability : 6.9 to 10 tonnes
• Thrust : 200 to 1,300 tonnes
• Height : 47 to 57 m
• Nominal lifetime : 1996 -...

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ARIANE 5 :

• weighs 700 tonnes on lift-off, in other words 10 % of the weight of the Eiffel tower;
• takes 130 seconds to burn the 237 tonnes of propellant in each booster;
• has a Vulcain engine whose power is equal to that of a nuclear power plant;
• required 700,000 hours of work by about 6,000 European employees during the most intensive parts of the programme;
• amounted to an overall cost of about 45 billion francs;
• involved 1,100 manufacturers in the project.

Source : cnes.fr