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