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Europe Spaceworthy Again

Posted by michael on from the watch-out-for-patriot-missiles dept.

Soft writes "After last february's retirement of the Ariane 4 and last year's failure of the uprated Ariane 5 EC-A, an Ariane 5G ("generic") successfully launched two communications satellites tonight. Stories at SpaceflightNow and the BBC. Atlas, Delta, watch out, we're still game!"

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  1. Re:That's fine by kriston · · Score: 4, Informative

    Naturally it's actually http://www.thebulletin.org/.

    Kris

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    Kriston

  2. not the same engine that blew up by rsdavis9 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I read somewhere that this used an older first stage engine that had successfully flown before. The malfunction of the previous flight was with a new advanced first stage and it had to be destroyed when it went off course. So they havent even flown the problematic engine yet. So I guess this flight proves nothing as to whether ariane is space worthy again.

    bob