Liebig said the Sentinel 1A and Sentinel 2A satellites, now under development, will not be launched before 2013 and either late 2013 or early 2014, respectively.
While extending Envisat’s life another year is costly, delaying the launch of Sentinel 1A and 2A by six months will mean the launch of their identical follow-ons, Sentinel 1B and Sentinel 2B, also will be delayed by six months.The launch of the B-model satellites was always intended to occur 18 months after the A-model spacecraft were successfully in orbit. That 18-month interval will remain, meaning that the European Commission, which is sharing GMES costs with ESA, need not finance the B-units’ launch services until around 2014.Those dates are important. The executive commission of the 27-nation European Union runs on seven-year budget cycles, with the next to start in 2014. Details of that budget will not be known until 2013, and no disbursements may be made until mid-2014 at the earliest.
Last nights launch of flight VA201 was aborted during the seven second "startup" of the main engine prior to the lighting of the SRB's and launch.
Per my informations :VA203 : 29th juneVA204 : 11th augustVA205 : 9th november (last launch in 2011)
- Arianespace Flight VA201; Ariane 5 ECA with Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat New Dawn: Liftoff is scheduled for Friday, April 22, 2011- Ariane Flight VA202, utilizing an Ariane 5 ECA to launch the ST-2 and GSAT-8 satellite payloads: May 19, 2011,- Ariane Flight VA203, with an Ariane 5 ECA carrying the ASTRA 1N and BSAT-3c passengers: June 29, 2011.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Satellite fleet operator SES will launch its mixed Ku- and Ka-band Astra 2E satellite aboard a European Ariane 5 rocket in mid-2013, Luxembourg-based SES and the Evry, France-based Arianespace launch consortium announced April 13.
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has declared the James Webb Space Telescope [JWST] will not launch until at least 2018.Bolden made those remarks on 11 April before a Congressional panel in Washington, DC.
Slated for this coming October, the first Soyuz at CSG will launch, on behalf of ESA, the first two satellites in the Galileo satellite positioning system.
OCT 2011 Vega ELV First Flight Vega
Oct. 20 Soyuz • Galileo IOV
The first two of these 18 satellites are scheduled for launch in late October on the inaugural flight of the Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. In the press briefing, Tajani went so far as to announce the exact timing of the launch — 7 a.m. on Oct. 20, French Guiana time.
The GSAT-7 and Insat-3D spacecraft, which were scheduled to be launched by the GSLV, will now go up on international launchers.Source
SES-2 and Air Force Payload Complete Dynamics Test – on Track for August 2011 Launch
