The Launch of TalTech student satellite Hämarik has been postponed due weather

The Launch of the Vega rocket with the student satellite Hämarik (Twilight) from French Guiana has been postponed because of high winds at high altitudes. The earliest launch opportunity is August, 17th.

Hämarik is the second of two student satellites that the TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology, in cooperation with DATEL, will launch into orbit. The Koit (Dawn) satellite launched on July 5 last year with a rocket from Russia.

The Vega rocket has over 40 small satellites onboard - most of them cube-satellites and 7 micro-satellites with up to 200kg mass per satellite. Cube satellites, Koit and Hämarik, are built to monitor the Earth from space, both satellites have two remote-sensing cameras, one for color (RGB) and the other for near-infrared (NIR).