Ariane 30th birthday

On 24 December 1979, Ariane made its first flight from French Guiana, marking the beginning of 30 years of success and giving Europe a guaranteed independent access to space. With Ariane, ESA could develop its own programmes in many different domains: telecommunications, Earth observation, science and exploration. Europe was the pioneer in the civil launch space market, with the creation of Arianespace, the world-leading space transportation company.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• European Space Agency
• Space
• Ariane
• Europe
• ESA
• Earth
• Observation
• Science
• Exploration
• Launcher
• Launch pad
• Tecnologies
• Technology
• Shuttle
• Shuttle launch

[EUROSUN1]

Congratulation ESA! Independent European Manned spaceflight must now be your number 1 priority!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[MyzTiC44]

Happy Birthday. Wish you success for the future :)

I am proud of you

[grummeper]

Thanks! Congratulation!

[libbern]

True. But the member states need to supply more funds for ESA to achieve that. For all I care, Norway (where I live) could use 5% of BNP on ESA^^