Integration of Soyuz VS14 upper composite

Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower and then onto the lower stages of the Soyuz launcher, on 19 April 2016.

The Soyuz VS14 mission launching on 22 April from the Guiana Space Center carries into orbit the Sentinel-1B satellite for the European Commission’s Copernicus Earth Observation Program. In addition to the primary payload, the mission is carrying the MicroSCOPE Satellite and three CubeSats to orbit.

Once in orbit, Sentinel-1B will provide radar images of Earth for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.

With the Sentinel-1 mission designed as a two-satellite constellation, Sentinel-1B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which was launched two years ago.