From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!karn
Newsgroups: net.space,net.ham-radio
Title: Phase 3-B Launch Date Set
Article-I.D.: eagle.499
Posted: Thu Sep  2 20:49:05 1982
Received: Sun Sep  5 03:46:34 1982

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that the launch of Ariane
L-7 carrying ECS-1 and Amsat Phase 3-B will take place on 3 Feb 1983.

No launch time was announced, but from earlier planning documents, there
will probably be two launch windows, each about 2 hours long, centered
around 0200 and 1330 UTC.

The launch of L-7 has been delayed not due to problems with the Ariane
launch vehicle, but to design problems with the ECS-1 spacecraft.