PARIS — Europe’s Arianespace launch consortium is creating a board of inquiry and a separate, outside committee to review the company’s quality control following three postponements of the first Ariane 5 launch in 2010 and a similar series of delays in last December’s launch of France’s Helios 2B reconnaissance satellite, Arianespace Chief Executive Jean-Yves Le Gall said April 12.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.