{"id":800574,"date":"2026-02-09T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800574"},"modified":"2026-02-09T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:22:30","slug":"watch-live-crew-12-launch-and-docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800574","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: Crew-12 launch and docking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Join ESA teams to watch live the launch and docking of Crew-12,\u00a0marking the beginning of a nine\u2011month mission to the International Space Station.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The crew of four consists of ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei\u00a0Fedyaev.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"heading\">Launch  <\/h2>\n<p>Crew-12 is scheduled to lift off at\u00a010:38 GMT \/\u00a011:38\u00a0CET (05:38 EST) on Thursday 12 February from the Kennedy Space\u00a0Center\u00a0in Florida, USA.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ESA and CNES, the French space agency,\u00a0are jointly hosting two live\u00a0broadcasts\u00a0\u2013\u00a0one in English and one in French\u00a0\u2013\u00a0around launch time.\u00a0The\u00a0teams have prepared an exclusive portrait of Sophie Adenot\u00a0and\u00a0news reports on the science she will\u00a0carry out\u00a0in orbit. They also will\u00a0conduct\u00a0live interviews from the Kennedy Space\u00a0Center\u00a0with:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Josef Aschbacher, Director General at ESA;<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Neuenschwander,\u00a0Director of Human\u00a0and Robotic Exploration at ESA;<\/li>\n<li>Lionel Suchet,\u00a0Chief Operating Officer at CNES;<\/li>\n<li>S\u00e9bastien Barde,\u00a0Deputy\u00a0Director of Science &amp;\u00a0Exploration\u00a0from CNES;<\/li>\n<li>Arnaud Prost, member of the ESA astronaut reserve.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tune in to\u00a0ESA Web TV Two\u00a0(English broadcast) or ESA Web TV Three\u00a0(French broadcast)\u00a0or the ESA YouTube channel (see below) to\u00a0watch our live launch broadcast from\u00a008:30 GMT\u00a0\/ 9:30 CET on Thursday 12 February.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast will conclude about 25 minutes after launch, once Crew-12 is\u00a0safely\u00a0in orbit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"heading\">Docking  <\/h2>\n<p>The trip to their new home and\u00a0workplace\u00a0typically takes around 24 hours, but this can vary \u2013 from as little as 16 to as much as 36 hours \u2013 depending on the launch date and flight profile.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If launch occurs as initially scheduled on 11 February, docking is expected to take place on 12 February at 15:30 GMT \/ 16:30 CET (10:30 ET).<\/p>\n<p>ESA Web TV Two\u00a0will live stream\u00a0the\u00a0docking\u00a0and\u00a0welcome ceremony.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><button id=\"ezsr_27098359_8_5\" class=\"btn ezsr-star-rating-enabled\" title=\"Like\">Like<\/button><\/p>\n<p id=\"ezsr_just_rated_27098359\" class=\"ezsr-just-rated hide\">Thank you for liking<\/p>\n<p id=\"ezsr_has_rated_27098359\" class=\"ezsr-has-rated hide\">You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration\/Watch_live_Crew-12_launch_and_docking?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join ESA teams to watch live the launch and docking of Crew-12,\u00a0marking the beginning of a nine\u2011month mission to the International Space Station.\u00a0\u00a0 The crew of four consists of ESA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}