Less than 10 hours to the historic launch of GIOVE-A

Tuesday, December 27. 2005
Launch updates

As depicted by the countdown on the right hand side of this blog, there are now just 9 hours to the launch of the Galileo Project's GIOVE-A satellite.

The European Space Agency (ESA) are providing live coverage of the event via satellite link from Baikonur in the early hours of tomorrow morning. The ESA are hosting a European viewing and Surrey Satellite Technology are hosting the European launch press conference on site at the University of Surrey.

This blog aims to keep readers updated with news as the day progresses. Key events are the launch itself, scheduled for 5:19 am and the switch over from Starsem launch control to SSTL ground control on site at 9:01.

The ESA Television website provides details of live video for broadcasters and details of post-event material.

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UK press invited to attend launch

Thursday, December 22. 2005
Launch updates

UK press, broadcasters and other invited guests are to attend a press conference on the 28th December at the SSTL with live video coverage of the GIOVE-A satellite launch from Baikonur.

To make arrangments, press and invited guests are asked to contact:

Audrey Nice, SSTL
Tel: (01483) 682 280
E-mail: a.nice@sstl.co.uk

The doors of will be open from 4:30, with the broadcast programme scheduled to start at 5:00. The press conference will take place in the School of Management, building 16 of the University Of Surrey, Guildford.

The University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH

A map of the campus: PDF map of the University Of Surrey campus

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Launch countdown

Thursday, December 22. 2005
Launch updates

With just 5 days and 17 hours to go to the launch, SSTL have added a counter to the blog and their website www.sstl.co.uk

You can add this countdown to your own website with some simple Javascript code if you are interested in the launch, please email Robin Wolstenholme. Contact details are given on the right hand side of the blog

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Live GIOVE-A launch broadcast

Thursday, December 22. 2005
Launch updates

On launch day, live streaming video of ther launch will be provided from both Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) in Guilford, UK and the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

Keep an eye on the blog, or sign up to our RSS feeds to keep up to date.

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