Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site islenet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!islenet!bob From: bob@islenet.UUCP (Bob Cunningham) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Giotto launched Message-ID: <1352@islenet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 16:37:38 EDT Article-I.D.: islenet.1352 Posted: Wed Jul 3 16:37:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 06:22:17 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics Lines: 11 In case your local newspaper buried the item so deep in the back pages that you didn't see it ... ESA's Giotto spacecraft was successfully launched from French Guiana on an Ariane booster yesterday. Giotto is the European Space Administration's Halley's Comet probe. So far, everything is "go". -- Bob Cunningham {dual|vortex|ihnp4}!islenet!bob Honolulu, Hawaii