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).