Ariane 5 Campaign

A new test campaign is getting underway to qualify a modified ignition sequence for the upper stage of Europe's Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The failure of Flight 142 on July 12 was blamed on ``a complex fluid mechanics phenomenon'' on the Aestus upper-stage engine that had gone undetected in previous...

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