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Arianespace Postpones Launch of Two Galileo Navigation Satellites Due to Weather

By Doug Messier

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December 3, 2021

Filed under Galileo satellites, Guiana Space Center, navigation satellites, Soyuz

Launch of VS01, first Soyuz ST-B flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 21 October 2011, carrying the first two satellites of Europe’s Galileo navigation system. (Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace)

KOUROU, French Guiana (Arianespace PR) — Due to adverse weather conditions (lightning), launch operations have been interrupted at H-10 minutes.

The Soyuz launch vehicle and Spacecraft are in stable and safe conditions.

The new earliest targeted launch date is December 4, 2021 at exactly:

> 07:19 p.m. Washington, D.C. time,
> 09:19 p.m. Kourou time,
> 00:19 a.m. Universal time (UTC), on December 5,
> 01:19 a.m. Paris time, on December 5,
> 03:10 a.m. Moscow time, on December 5.

Doug Messier