TS News - Upcoming Atlas, Ariane Launches

• From: Martyn Williams <martyn@twics.com>
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:59:10 +0900
• From owner-ts-news@tele-satellit.com Tue Nov 12 19: 10:00 1996

TELE-satellit News, 13 November 1996

Upcoming Atlas, Ariane Launches
  TOKYO, Japan, 96/11/12 (TS) -- A Lockheed Martin Atlas IIA launch vehicle
is scheduled to put HotBird 2 into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Wednesday
November 13th.  The launch window runs from 3:44 p.m. to 5:18 p.m. ET.
Coverage of the AC-124 launch is scheduled to be on Galaxy 9/22, beginning
at 3:00 p.m. ET.

  Arianespace is due to launch two satellites, Arabsat 2B and Measat 2, from
Kourou, French Guiana aboard an Ariane 44LP launcher, also on Wednesday,
November 13th.  The launch window runs from 5:40 p.m. to 6:26 p.m. ET.
Coverage of the launch is scheduled to be on Galaxy 6/02, beginning at 5:10
p.m.  [Previous information provided by Arianespace had indicated a launch
window of 6:40 p.m. to 7:26 p.m. ET.]

  By: Curt Swinehart

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