On the 27th of December - 14:23 UT CoRoT will be launched from a Soyuz 2-1B, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This European space mission is expected to be at work for 3 years, during which it will search for new exoplanets and look deeper inside the stars.
To follow the launch go to http://www.cnes-tv.com/corot