Good evening,
For those of us who enjoy the roar of a rocket engine before bedtime Arianespace is launching tonight. The eighth launch of the year from the Guiana Space center in French Guiana, and the second with a Soyuz, Arianespace will orbit two satellites Galileo FOC-M3, satellites 9 & 10 for the European Space Agency. (non-amateur radio payloads) It will be launched from the Soyuz launch complex ELS, in Kourou, French Guiana.
Liftoff is scheduled for Thursday, September 10, 2015, at:
. 11:08:10 pm, local time in French Guiana, . 10:08:10 pm, in Washington, DC, (EDT) . 9:08:10 pm, in Chicago (CDT) . 02:08:10 UTC Friday, September 11
Webcast starts 20 minutes before at http://www.arianespace.tv/
-- 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org AMSAT VP User Services