karn (09/03/82)
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.