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Final Mission for the Ariane-4 Successful

Posted by timothy on from the end-on-a-good-note dept.

Neophytus writes "The BBC reports that the final mission of the Ariane-4 series of commercial rockets has been completed. First launched in 1988 they have since successfully completed 116 missions, the final lifting the Intelsat 907 communications satellite into geostationary orbit. About 5 launches of the Ariane-5 are planned this year, the first in March."

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  1. Is it true . . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That instead of dogs and chimps the French use cheese-eating surrender monkeys ? That the Ariane's budget has been cut because the French discovered there are no truffles on the moon ? That the French space program is spending 12 million euro to reverse engineer the purpose of the Space Station's weightless shower ? That the French manned missions will take along an Algerian and a Romanian Gypsy so the Franconauts can have someone spit on and feel at home ?