Cerise collides with Ariane fragment

Allen Thomson (thomsona@netcom.com)
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 05:15:54 -0700

   According to Aviation Week and Space Technology, August 12,  
1996, p. 20, the French Cerise SIGINT mapper suffered a 
collision with a fragment of the Ariane which launched SPOT 1 in 
1986. No details have been released by France, but the accident 
apparently happened in late July.