Program

UK

Payloads: 6
In orbit: 0
Operational (CelesTrak): 0
Re-entered: 6
First launch: 1962-04-26
Latest launch: 1979-06-02

Owners

Built by

British Aircraft Corp.2
GSFC/WTA2
Marconi1
RAE/BAC1

Payloads in this program

Name	NORAD	Launch date	Status
ARIEL 1 (UK-1)	285	1962-04-26	Re-entered 1976-05-24
ARIEL 2 (UK-2)	771	1964-03-27	Re-entered 1967-11-18
ARIEL 3 (UK-3)	2773	1967-05-05	Re-entered 1970-12-14
ARIEL 4 (UK-4)	5675	1971-12-11	Re-entered 1978-12-12
ARIEL 5 (UK 5)	7471	1974-10-15	Re-entered 1980-03-14
ARIEL 6	11382	1979-06-02	Re-entered 1990-09-23

From GCAT by Jonathan McDowell (CC BY 4.0). Roles are counted from the catalogue itself, not from GCAT type labels, which GCAT describes as patchy. About this source