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Ariel 4
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 11 Dec 1971, 08:47 pm UTC
Rocket: Scout B-1 (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 4 primary mission was to study ionosphere.