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Ariel 3
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 5 May 1967, 04:00 pm UTC
Rocket: Scout A (Scout)
Provider: Science and Engineering Research Council
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
Ariel is a series of British research satellites. Ariel 3 was used to study atmospheric phenomena, and it also continued the previous satellite's experiments in gathering data on galactic radio noise.