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From: rjnoe@riccb.UUCP (Roger J. Noe)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Ariane destroyed
Message-ID: <526@riccb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 01:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 01:07:00 1985
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I just heard that range safety officers of the European Space Agency had to
destruct an Ariane launcher (with payload) after a guidance failure.  Can any-
one with access to wire service reports synopsize them and expand on this?
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Roger Noe			ihnp4!riccb!rjnoe