Ariane 5 & friends:

Excellent

    http://wapedia.mobi/en/Ariane_5

Good variant summary

           http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ariane5.htm

Specs
          http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/elvs/ariane5_specs.shtml


Basic desciption
         http://www.spaceandtech.com/spacedata/elvs/ariane5_sum.shtml
& link to many othersm, including

Arianespace home

         http://www.arianespace.com/index/index.asp









On 12 April 2010 16:12, Russell McMahon <apptechnz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The Smart-1 ESA Demonstration space craft used an Ion Drive to get
>>> to the moon. Took it 9 months (IIRC) to get its earth orbit large enough to
>>> get captured by the moons gravity.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART-1
>
>> $170 million dollars
>
>> I wonder how much the space craft cost and how much the launch process
>> cost ?
>> Anyone know ?
>
> 1. 750 million international monetary units up (including the 3
> satellites it carried). Maybe as high as 1 billion IMU.
> Depends also on which apples you are counting.
>
> or
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