Spaceflight Now: Cluster II
Ariane 501 explodes destroying the first Cluster mission

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Posted: July 14, 2000

The first quartet of Cluster satellites is destroyed when Europe's Ariane 5 explodes soon after launch on June 4, 1996. Source video: ESA (216k, 18sec QuickTime file).

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