From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!karn Newsgroups: net.space Title: Ariane L5 status Article-I.D.: alice.911 Posted: Thu Sep 9 22:48:40 1982 Received: Fri Sep 10 06:33:17 1982 The latest word on the Ariane L5 launch: Telemetry was apparently lost during the third stage burn while the launcher was being tracked by the Ascension Island tracking station. It is not clear at this point whether there was a third stage malfunction, a telemetry system failure or a ground equipment problem. Phil Karn, KA9Q