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Ariane's 30th Anniversary.

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  • 23-12-2009 7:36pm
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    Turtwig
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    Howdy folks,

    Just letting you know that tomorrow (December 24th) will be the 30th anniversary of the first launch of ESA's Ariane class rockets that allowed Europe to become a bigger and, more importantly, independent player in Space.
    One of the joys of our tax money I hope you'll agree. :)



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    ynotdu
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    Malty_T wrote: »
    Howdy folks,

    Just letting you know that tomorrow (December 24th) will be the 30th anniversary of the first launch of ESA's Ariane class rockets that allowed Europe to become a bigger and, more importantly, independent player in Space.
    One of the joys of our tax money I hope you'll agree. :)


    Really Malty Ariane is 30 years old?????
    If it were not for the Politics of it all I think Augustine should have considered it as a quick remedy to replace Ares-1.
    I believe with modifications Ariane V could even equal the proposed Ares-V.
    It was SES,s preferred launch vehicle for placing hugh payload satelites in Geo-sync giving us all the...........erm...........pleasure of 999 channels!:)

    Next year Soyuz will launch from French Guinana as Ariane does now,using the same Launch control center!
    A case of the USA fiddling while Rome burns?
    The proposed Command module for Ares-1(Orion) was/is over 3 metres wide:eek:

    Also ESA has put orders in for the next generation Soyuz already!Hmmmmmmmmm


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