Paris. The explosion of Europe's Ariane-5 satellite launcher on its maiden flight last June will add ECU288 million (US$362 million) to the cost of the programme, and delay the full commercial exploitation of the launcher by a year to early 1998. These and other details of how the Ariane-5 programme is to be resumed following the explosion were announced last week at a press conference in Paris by Jean-Marie Luton, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), and Alain Bensoussan, president of the French space agency (CNES).
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