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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4522.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4522. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Space Missions, Astrophysical Missions

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Series of six UK-led scientific satellites launched 1962-79. The first four studied the ionosphere, while the last two were x-ray astronomy satellites. Ariel 3 was the first all-British satellite. The UK-US Ariel 5, launched in October 1974, operated for more than five years and discovered dozens of new x-ray sources, including a number of transient sources such as Cygnus X-1. Ariel 6 suffered te...

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