Ariane 1 was the first rocket in the Ariane launcher family. Ariane 1 was designed primarily to put two telecommunications satellites at a time into orbit thus reducing costs. As the size of satellites grew Ariane 1 gave way to the more powerful Ariane 2 and Ariane 3 launchers.
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