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Class: Technology. Nation: France.

Multiple European technology test satellites launched on the first Ariane.

Associated Launch Vehicle: Ariane 1.

Firewheel Chronology

1980 May 23 - Feuerrad subsatellite 2 - Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Vehicle: Ariane. FAILURE: Failure.

1980 May 23 - Feuerrad subsatellite 3 - Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Vehicle: Ariane. FAILURE: Failure.

1980 May 23 - Feuerrad subsatellite 4 - Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Vehicle: Ariane. FAILURE: Failure.

1980 May 23 - Feuerrad subsatellite 1 - Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Vehicle: Ariane. FAILURE: Failure.

1980 May 23 - Firewheel - Launch Site: Kourou. Launch Vehicle: Ariane. FAILURE: Stage 1 combustion instability.

Bibliography:

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Web Address when accessed: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.
McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

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