Next ESA | French Guyana Spaceport Launch Come Tuesday Late Aft., US time… Check It Out!

With NASA still moth-balled by Trumpian shut-down lunacy… we turn to our firends across the pond — for this.

Here’s the latest, on a crisp sunny Fall Sunday — with daylight saving time ending, making it a very lazy mid-morning:

…The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite, with Sentinel-1D now ready for liftoff. Launch will take place with an Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and live coverage will be shown on Tuesday, 4 November, at 22:02 CET (18:02 at Kourou)…. [Launch link for Live ESA TV, here.]

Follow the launch live on Tuesday, 4 November 2025 — all times in CET (with East Coast times, in parens)

21:15 [2:15 PM EST] – Broadcast begins

21:35 [2:35 PM EST] – Streaming from Kourou

21:38 [2:28 PM EST] – Introductions, interviews and mission status updates

22:02 [3:02 PM EST] – Liftoff and live commentary

23:22 [4:22 PM EST] – Acquisition of signal

23:30 [4:30 PM EST] – Press conference

00:15 [5:15 PM EST] – End of press conference and streaming. . . .

Onward — into some contempt motions — as early as tomorrow, in federal court here in the City of Big Shoulders…. grin. [And that’s after eight more local Emmy awards, last night — making 22 of them for a career. Sweet!]

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