Apr 23

OUFTI-1 launch postponed for at least 24 hours

A technical failure caused a stop of the countdown.
Hopefully we can expect the launch on April 25, 2016, at 21:02:13 UTC. (updated: April 25, 16:00 UTC)

On April 24 around 45 minutes before the scheduled liftoff Arianespace reported a problem with the SYZ Inertial Measurement Unit on the launch vehicle.
Arianespace has placed both the rocket and its precious cargo in a safe standby mode.

The new TLE for the cubesat OUFTI-1 after its announced launch on april 25:

OUFTI-1
1 00001U 00001A 16116.99330000 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0015
2 00001 98.2172 121.5194 0152400 241.4610 358.4169 15.02516156 00014

Jan, on7ux

I built my first transistor radio when I was 12 years old. The Gemini space program and later the Apollo program were my youthful introduction to astronomy. Through the school I had on my 17th (1970) already facilities for receiving weather satellite (Nimbus 3) signals (NOAA). I am an licensed radio amateur since 1978.

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