Arianespace launch, Vega Mohammed VI-B, 01:42 GMT
Launch time: 0142 GMT on 21st
Launch site: ZLV, Kourou, French Guiana
Arianespace Vega rocket VV13 will launch with the Mohammed VI-B Earth observation satellite for the government of Morocco.
Recent launches:
Nov 17: Antares 230
*CRS-10 Cygnus spacecraft, cargo to the International Space Station, from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Nov 15: SpaceX Falcon 9
*Japanese-built, Qatari-owned Es’hail 2 communications satellite, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to geostationary orbit over the equator. Second launch and landing of that specific first stage.
Nov 11: Electron
*NZ launch of USA-owned Rocket Lab's first commercial flight, "It's Business Time" - 6 satellites.
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Launch time: 0142 GMT on 21st
Launch site: ZLV, Kourou, French Guiana
Arianespace Vega rocket VV13 will launch with the Mohammed VI-B Earth observation satellite for the government of Morocco.
Recent launches:
Nov 17: Antares 230
*CRS-10 Cygnus spacecraft, cargo to the International Space Station, from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Nov 15: SpaceX Falcon 9
*Japanese-built, Qatari-owned Es’hail 2 communications satellite, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to geostationary orbit over the equator. Second launch and landing of that specific first stage.
Nov 11: Electron
*NZ launch of USA-owned Rocket Lab's first commercial flight, "It's Business Time" - 6 satellites.
( , Tue 20 Nov 2018, 23:14, Share, Reply)
It's about time the rocket launching community reached out to religious types by naming a rocket after one of their prophets.
( , Tue 20 Nov 2018, 23:20, Share, Reply)
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I like the Ceefaxesque pre-launch easy listening soundtrack
( , Wed 21 Nov 2018, 0:35, Share, Reply)
Are you allowed to name satellites after the prophet then?
or 80s chanteuses?
( , Wed 21 Nov 2018, 8:39, Share, Reply)
or 80s chanteuses?
( , Wed 21 Nov 2018, 8:39, Share, Reply)