Herschel and Planck Launch Minute-by-Minute

Herschel and Planck Launch Minute-by-Minute

May 11

On Thursday (at 13:12 UT) Arianespace will send into orbit two scientific satellites for the European Space Agency: the Herschel space telescope and the Planck scientific observatory. The launch process which will take these amazing new instruments from the ground into space takes less than an hour! I will be watching the event live from Cardiff (you can watch it here) and was curious as to how...