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ESA's Herschel & Planck: lift-off scheduled for 6 May

Rob Coppinger
 on April 8, 2009 2:53 PM | | Comments (0)
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The European Space Agency's Herschel and Planck space telescopes are now to be launched by Arianespace EADS Astrium Ariane 5 on Wednesday 6 May

The European launch provider made the announcement today. The launch had been delayed  a number of times before, to 14 April, then 16 April and now 6 May

On 2 April ESA announced the latest delay but did not give a new date

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