Arianespace: "One of the last major milestones in preparations for Flight 162 occurred today when the mission's Ariane 5G was transferred from its final assembly building to the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport.

Riding atop its massive mobile launch table, the Ariane 5 moved on the 2.8-km.-long twin rail line that links the final assembly building with the launch zone.

Once in the launch zone, the table was locked into position over the large flame ducts that direct exhaust from Ariane 5's two solid rocket motors and the core stage's Vulcain cryogenic main engine.

All is on schedule for tomorrow evening's liftoff of Flight 162 with the three-satellite payload of Europe's SMART-1 lunar probe, the Eutelsat e-BIRD broadband services satellite, and the Indian Space Research Organisation's INSAT-3E telecommunications/video broadcast platform.

The 19-minute-long launch window for Flight 162 opens at 8:02 p.m. local time in French Guiana (11:02 p.m. GMT, 7:02 p.m. in Washington, D.C., and 1:02 a.m. on Sept. 28 in Paris). "