Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Giotto Launched Message-ID: <3953@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 20:21:11 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.3953 Posted: Tue Jul 2 20:21:11 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:58:30 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 5 The ESA today successfully launched its Giotto space probe atop an Ariane 1 booster. The probe, Europe's first inter- planetary spacecraft, is in a parking orbit, from which it will deploy after four orbits onto its journey to rendezvous with Halley's comet in March, 1986.