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Ariel 5
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 15 Oct 1974, 07:47 am UTC
Rocket: Scout B-1 (Scout)
Provider: Science and Engineering Research Council
Mission
Type: Astrophysics
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: San Marco platform, Broglio Space Center, Kenya
Mission Description
Ariel is a series of British research satellites. Ariel 5 was a joint British and American space telescope which monitored the sky in the X-ray band.