GIOVE-BGIOVE-B, the second Galileo satellite, is scheduled for launch at 00:16 CEST on Sunday, 27 April (22:16, 26 April UTC/GMT). Live streaming video coverage from the launch site and the spacecraft control centre will be available on the GIOVE-B website.
Ummm, wasn't that, like, an hour ago? Did it launch yet?Next launch is the first Land Launch mission, a modified Zenit-3SLB closely related to the Sea Launch vehicle will be used.
Mission will be to launch an Isreali comsat, and is scheduled for liftoff at 0500 UTC
From ESA:-
The GIOVE-B satellite was lofted into a medium altitude orbit around the earth by a Soyuz/Fregat rocket departing from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by launch operator Starsem. Lift-off occurred at 04:16 local time on 27 April (00:16 Central European Summer Time). The Fregat upper stage performed a series of manoeuvres to reach a circular orbit at an altitude of about 23 200 km, inclined at 56 degrees to the Equator, before safely delivering the satellite into orbit some 3 hours and 45 minutes later. The two solar panels that generate electricity to power the spacecraft deployed correctly and were fully operational by 05:28 CEST.
Current reports:-
ESA:-
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9GD2QGFF_index_0.html
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