Ariane 1 L-5 from Kourou, Ariane's first commercial flight, failed carrying MARECS B maritime and Sirio 2 communications satellites to GEO when a third-stage turbopump failed about seven minutes after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 5th
- of 11 Ariane 1 flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1982, 02:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 1
- Builder
- Aérospatiale
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV), Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1982
- 96th of 129