Before and after: Phoenix HEEA sensor.... and wrecked LEEA sensor.

A mint condition HEEA sensor compared with a LEEA sensor recovered after the disastrous launch.

(Photographs : M. de la Nougerede, MSSL, UCL)

Launch of Ariane 501

    left:
    The maiden flight of the Ariane 5
    lifts off at Kourou in French Guiana,
    South America on 4 June 1996.
    Aboard were ESA's four original
    Cluster satellites.
 

    below:
    40 seconds into the flight, the
    launch vehicle veered off course
    and had to be destroyed by ground
    control.

    Read the Ariane 501 Failure
    Report here.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

(Photographs: ESA/CNES)

        The remains of a Cluster satellite found
        in the swamps of Kourou.
        (click for larger version)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Photograph courtesy ESA

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By Sarah Szita
Last updated on27/06/00