Ariane 1

Overview

Europe's first launcher, which established independent access to space and orbited the Giotto probe to Halley's Comet.

Components & hardware

Knowledge connections

• Member of familyAriane
• Operated byArianespace
• Launched fromEnsemble de Lancement Ariane 1
• Replaced byAriane 2
• Basis forAriane 2
• Basis forAriane 3
• LaunchedGiotto

Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

• ESAEuropean Space Agency

  European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.