Nice vapor cone :)

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Pad shot

and yes I will stop spamming now :)

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The launch team

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And here is part of the lift-off slow-mo...

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45 years ago today, the first Ariane launched from CSG

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You want fins with that ?

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Here it is, the water tower back in 1970 being constructed, and still in use today.
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I've cleaned-up and uploaded the full Ariane 1 L01 launch campaign video here if you are bored

archive.org/details/aria...

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#OTD 2 July 1985, launch of #Giotto, ESA's first deep-space probe, on #Ariane1 V14 from Europe's Spaceport, to make encounters with comets #Halley and #GriggSkjellerup. The start of Europe's cometary adventures! 🚀☄️

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Now published in Peer Community Journal, #ecology section: A Julia toolkit for species distribution data