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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
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 20:21:11 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 08:58:30 EDT
Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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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.