On Sunday (July 14), India will launch its second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, and you can watch it live here. A launch webcast will begin at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT). Liftoff is scheduled for 5:21 p.m. EDT (2121 GMT) from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, where the local time at launch will be 2:51 a.m. Sunday, July 15.Chandrayaan-2 is an ambitious mission by the Indian Space Research Organisation and will launch on a GLSV Mark III rocket, the country's most powerful booster. Like its predecessor, Chandrayaan-1, the mission will send an orbiter to explore the moon. But in an ambitious move, ISRO is also sending a lander (called Vikram) and a rover (called Pragyan) to the moon with the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter. Both lander and rover are destined to land at the south pole of the moon, something that has never been done before. Landing is scheduled for Sept. 6.The total estimated cost of the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is $140 million, according to the Times of … [Read more...] about Watch Live Sunday: India Launching Chandrayaan-2 to the Moon!
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Watch Live Now! Ariane 5 Rocket Launching 2 Communications Satellites for Saudi Arabia and India
The European launch provider Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 rocket to launch communications satellites for Saudi Arabia and India today (Feb. 5). The mission is scheduled to lift off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana during a 61-minute launch window that opens at 4:01 p.m. EST (2101 GMT). You can watch the launch live in the window above, courtesy of Arianespace, or directly via the company's YouTube channel. Live coverage with commentary will begin approximately 15–20 minutes before the launch window opens. The Ariane 5 rocket will loft into orbit two satellites. One of the satellites, SaudiGeoSat 1/Hellas Sat 4, carries two payloads that will provide telecommunications services over Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The second satellite is the Indian Space Research Organization's GSAT-31, which will provide broadband communications coverage over India. You can read more about the satellite payloads … [Read more...] about Watch Live Now! Ariane 5 Rocket Launching 2 Communications Satellites for Saudi Arabia and India
Watch Live @ 4 pm ET: Ariane 5 Rocket Launching 2 Communications Satellites for Saudi Arabia and India
The European launch provider Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 rocket to launch communications satellites for Saudi Arabia and India today (Feb. 5). The mission is scheduled to lift off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana during a 61-minute launch window that opens at 4:01 p.m. EST (2101 GMT). You can watch the launch live in the window above, courtesy of Arianespace, or directly via the company's YouTube channel. Live coverage with commentary will begin approximately 15–20 minutes before the launch window opens. The Ariane 5 rocket will loft into orbit two satellites. One of the satellites, SaudiGeoSat 1/Hellas Sat 4, carries two payloads that will provide telecommunications services over Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The second satellite is the Indian Space Research Organization's GSAT-31, which will provide broadband communications coverage over India. You can read more about the satellite payloads … [Read more...] about Watch Live @ 4 pm ET: Ariane 5 Rocket Launching 2 Communications Satellites for Saudi Arabia and India
Watch an Ariane 5 Rocket Launch 2 Satellites Today!
An Ariane 5 rocket will launch two new communications satellites for Saudi Arabia and India today (Feb. 5), and you can watch the liftoff live online! The Ariane 5, provided by the European launch company Arianespace, will lift off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana during a 61-minute launch window that opens at 4:01 p.m. EST (2101 GMT). A live webcast with commentary from Arianespace will begin approximately 20 minutes before then. You can watch the launch live here on Space.com, courtesy of Arianespace, or you can stream it directly from Arianespace's YouTube channel, which offers both English and French versions of the webcast. Two new telecommunications satellites will hitch a ride to orbit inside the rocket's payload fairing. One of the satellites carries two payloads — the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1 (SGS-1) and Hellas Sat 4 (HS-4) — on what is known as a "condosat," or a satellite platform that can support a combination of payloads. The … [Read more...] about Watch an Ariane 5 Rocket Launch 2 Satellites Today!
How to watch live online as China attempts to land on the Moon
Picture credit: CNSAChina is orbiting the moon – and is about to (try to) land on it. Almost exactly 50 years after NASA's Apollo 8 mission successfully put astronauts in orbit of our satellite for the first time, a Chinese probe called Chang’e-4 (CH-4) now circling the moon is about to send a lander to the moon's far side.That's a destination no space agency has visited before, and it will be a huge test of China's space technology – and a massive source of national pride if it comes off. Could it be the beginning of another space race to get back to the Moon?How to watch China's moon landing live on TVThere's a belief that the China National Space Administration (CNSA, the national space agency of China), is quasi-military and keeps everything under wraps, but in reality, it's little different to NASA.A few years ago it broadcast the landing of its Chang'e-3 (CH-3) moon probe live on Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television's English language channel. You … [Read more...] about How to watch live online as China attempts to land on the Moon