In Guyana, further postponement of 24 shooting from the Russian Soyuz launcher because of the weather – Overseas 1st

• By Thomas Diego Badia
• Published April 24, 2016 at 15:02 , updated the April 24, 2016 at 15:06

originally intended Friday from Kourou, shooting has been postponed Saturday then postponed to Sunday evening Paris time due to atmospheric conditions. Once in space, it will monitor the Earth to detect oil spills in the oceans.

© JODY AMIET / AFP A Soyuz rocket assembly in Kourou in 2015.

the shot of the Russian Soyuz rocket , originally expected Friday from French Guiana and postponed once on Saturday, has been postponed again to Sunday reasons of weather, Arianespace announced the company in a statement. “The latest observed weather conditions indicate a red weather” on time for the launch on Saturday, Arianespace said in a statement. The takeoff of the rocket from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) is now set at 6:02 p.m. time in Kourou (9:02 p.m. GMT) Sunday. The mission will last four hours.
Soyuz must send in the European space satellite Sentinel-1B, twin brother of Sentinel-1A launched it two years ago and a French microsatellite Microscope who intends to test a principle of Einstein’s theory. Sentinel-1 mission consists of a pair of satellites (1-A and 1-B) each equipped with sophisticated radar and capable of providing images of the surface of the Earth day and night, whatever the conditions weather.

environmental Monitoring

over the seas and oceans, the satellite provides images to map ice or detect possible oil spills. Above land, he can observe land use and monitor landslides. The mission should also help to respond more quickly in case of floods or earthquakes.
Once Sentinel-1B has been placed on the target orbit at an altitude of about 686 km, it scrutinize every area of ​​the Earth every six days. This mission is part of the ambitious Copernicus program of the European Union, for environmental monitoring. It includes several types of Sentinel satellites are to operate in pairs.
The French microsatellite Microscope hopes to find a breach in the general relativity theory developed by Albert Einstein a century ago. Microscope is responsible for testing in vacuum and space universality of free fall, with a precision 100 times greater than on Earth. The Russian rocket should also pick three “Cube-Sats” nano-satellites cube, developed by European students under the “Fly Your Satellite” program of ESA, which aims to stimulate scientific vocations .