Arianespace confirmed that the postponed flight of India's GSAT-10 communication satellite and ASTRA 2F satellite built by EADS Astrium...
Arianespace confirmed that the postponed flight of India's GSAT-10 communication satellite and ASTRA 2F satellite built by EADS Astrium will now be launched on September 29, from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.
The launch was postponed following a technical problem on board Ariane 5 ECA launcher.
Initially the launch was scheduled for September 21.
Liftoff of the Ariane 5 launcher is now scheduled for Friday, September 28, 2012, at:
6:18 p.m., local time in Kourou, French Guiana,
5:18 p.m., at Washington, D.C.
11:28 p.m., in Paris
2:48 a.m., at Bangalore, on Saturday, Sept 29.
On September 15, Arianespace found a “small snag”(leakage) on the upper side of the Ariane rocket and it carried out additional checks to see if one gram of dust particles that was not accounted for, has stuck to critical moving parts.
