Arianespace is launching a rocket called Ariane 64 from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana. The public listing does not name a cargo yet.
Arianespace is flying a Ariane 64 from Ariane Launch Area 4, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana. Mission: Comet Interceptor. ESA's Comet Interceptor consists of three spacecraft which will be positioned at the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, where they will wait for a long-period comet or an interstellar object to come by. Once the desired target appears, the spacecraft will separate and perform a flyby of the target, compiling a detailed 3D profile of a comet. Planned orbit: Heliocentric N/A. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.
Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.
From here
Too far to see
You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 4,007 miles east. The broadcast is the view.
That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.
Space jobs corner
Who is on this flight
Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.
Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.
Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.
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So the slip still finds you
A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.
