From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!karn
Newsgroups: net.space,net.ham-radio
Title: Ariane Launch Failure Update
Article-I.D.: eagle.507
Posted: Fri Sep 10 01:50:08 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 06:52:24 1982

For the second time, an Ariane rocket has launched a submarine
satellite.

Its official; the third stage on L5 shut down early for unknown reasons,
and the launcher and its two satellites impacted in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean.

This makes a track record so far consisting of 3 successes (L01, L03, L04)
and two failures (L02 and L5).