Arianespace Soyuz Flight VS14 Launch Countdown Resumed

Press Release: Arianespace Soyuz Flight VS14 Launch Countdown Resumed

April 25, 2016

With the successful completion of operations to replace the Soyuz launcher’s inertial system that experienced a technical fault – along with the associated checks – Arianespace has decided to resume the launch chronology.

Flight VS14 will orbit the Sentinel-1B satellite for the Copernicus program, on behalf of the European Commission and within the framework of a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). Also to be orbited on the mission are the French CNES space agency’s Microscope satellite, and three CubeSats for the ESA Education and Knowledge Management Office’s Fly Your Satellite! program.

Liftoff of the Soyuz launcher is planned for Monday, April 25, 2016, at the precise moment of:

> 06:02:13 p.m., (Local time in French Guiana)
> 05:02:13 p.m., (in Washington, D.C.)
> 09:02:13 p.m., (UTC)
> 11:02:13 p.m., (in Paris)
> 00:02:13 a.m., (in Moscow) on April 26.

Source: Arianespace