[net.space] Giotto Launched

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.