Name: Firewheel — launch
Start: 1980-05-23
Location: Centre Spatial Guyanais, Kourou, Guyane Francaise

Launch code: OF. Source references: CNES32; -. Combustion instability

Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)

1979-12-24 CAT — launch Shares a spacecraft, person or other linked entity
1981-06-19 Meteosat 2/Apple — launch Shares a spacecraft, person or other linked entity
1981-12-20 Marecs 1 — launch Shares a spacecraft, person or other linked entity
1980-10-30 ESA Convention enters into force Same organization: European Space Agency
1975-05-31 ESA begins operations Same organization: European Space Agency
1975-05-30 ESA Convention approved Same organization: European Space Agency