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June 11th, 2012

Arianespace... Deferred Flight (Launch)


[SatNews] In order to allow one of its customers to perform complementary checks on its payload...

... Arianespace has rescheduled the launch of EchoStar XVII and MSG-3 satellites (Flight VA208). Liftoff of the Ariane 5 ECA launcher is now set for the night of Thursday, July 5th, as early as possible in the following launch window:

    From 06:36 p.m. to 07:05 p.m. in Kourou, on July 5th
    From 05:36 p.m. to 06:05 p.m. in Washington DC, on Thursday, July 5th
    From 09:36 p.m. to 10:05 p.m. UTC, on Thursday, July 5th
    From 11:36 p.m. to 12:05 a.m. in Paris and Darmstadt, on the night of Thursday, July 5th, to Friday, July 6th.