alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (07/03/85)
The ESA today successfully launched its Giotto space probe atop an Ariane 1 booster. The probe, Europe's first inter- planetary spacecraft, is in a parking orbit, from which it will deploy after four orbits onto its journey to rendezvous with Halley's comet in March, 1986.