Ariane 1
Launch history

Ariane 1

Section Title: Launch history
Table Section Text: None

Flight	Date	Launch Pad	Payload	Outcome	#	Remarks

L-01	24 December 1979	ELA-1	CAT-1	Success	1	First flight

L-02	23 May 1980	ELA-1	Firewheel Subsat-1,2,3,4 Amsat P3A CAT 2	Failure	2	Combustion instability in one of the Viking first stage engines

L-03	19 June 1981	ELA-1	Meteosat 2 Apple CAT 3	Success	3

L-04	20 December 1981	ELA-1	MARECS 1 CAT 4	Success	4

L-5	10 September 1982	ELA-1	MARECS B Sirio 2	Failure	5	First commercial launch The rocket ceased functioning after 7 minutes of flight due to a turbopump failure in the third stage

L-6	16 June 1983	ELA-1	ECS 1 Amsat P3B (Oscar 10)	Success	6

L-7	19 October 1983	ELA-1	Intelsat 507	Success	7

L-8	5 February 1984	ELA-1	Intelsat 508	Success	8

V-9	23 May 1984	ELA-1	Spacenet 1	Success	9

V-14	2 July 1985	ELA-1	Giotto	Success	10

V-16	22 February 1986	ELA-1	SPOT 1 Viking	Success	11	Last flight

Sentence(s)

The Giotto mission's spaceprobe was successfully launched on the tenth Ariane 1 mission, V-14, on 2 July 1985.

final_sentence: The Giotto mission's spaceprobe was successfully launched on the tenth Ariane 1 mission, V-14, on 2 July 1985.