The World - News from May 8, 1985
An Ariane rocket launched from French Guiana successfully placed two communications satellites into orbit, European Space Agency officials reported. The mission went as planned after a two-hour delay--caused by battery failure in the two satellites, a French-built Telecom 1-B and an American G-Star-1, and a drop in hydraulic pressure in the rocket boosters. The European rocket is challenging the U.S. space shuttle as a satellite launcher.
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