Ariane still riding high despite launch failure

ARIANE 5 Flight 501 Failure

FOREWORD On 4 June 1996, the maiden flight of the Ariane 5 launcher ended in a failure. Only about 40 seconds after initiation of the flight sequence, at an altitude of about 3700 m, the launcher veered off its flight path, broke up and exploded. Engineers from the Ariane 5 project teams of CNES and Industry immediately started to investigate the failure. Over the following days, the Director G...

Failure to Launch

Ma The importance of inflammation and inflammatory pathways in atherosclerotic disease and acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is well established. The success of statin therapy rests not only on potently reducing levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, but also on the many beneficial, pleiotropic effects statin therapy has on various inflammatory mechanisms in atherosclerotic disease, from r...

Countdown to launch of the first microsatellites qualified for flight on Ariane-5 ASAP

In the fourth quarter of 2000, the first Ariane-5 to carry “piggy-back” payloads on the newly-designed ASAP ring is planned to be launched into a geo-synchronous orbit. The two 100kg spacecraft carried on the ring will be the second generation of microsatellites from the UK Defence Evaluation & Research Agency (DERA), called STRV-1c and –1d. Between them, these spacecraft carry 25 separate expe...

Lung cancer: despite advances, prevention is still best.

Human homing: still no evidence despite geomagnetic controls.

Baker's highly influential and widely cited studies suggest that people are capable of non-visual navigational performance comparable to that of homing pigeons. Past failures to replicate this work have been attributed by Baker to geomagnetic influences. We report a series of experiments in which both temporal and spatial geomagnetic controls were introduced. We could still find no evidence for...