Rocket's launch was scheduled for 3 May

Bad weather delays ESA's Vega satellite launch

By Nerea Rial 

Vega, Europe's new satellite, is still waiting on its launch pad to start its second mission, due to bad weather conditions which had postponed its travel.
The launch from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana was scheduled for 23:06 local time on 3 May (02:06 GMT, 4 May), but the take-off date is now unknown.
The new mission is part of series planned by the European Space Agency (Esa) to show the rocket's capabilities. However, the  high altitude wind conditions were unacceptable and controllers decided to postpone the launch.
Vega's first mission took place in February 2012 and with the new one the satellite will collect data on land cover and vegetation changes over the entire globe every a couple of days.
For the new operation, engineers have written new flight software for the rocket and have built a new  ground station in the north of French Guiana.

The satellite will drop off three different payloads: Proba Vegetation, the Estonian Cubesat and a commercial satellite, VNRD-sat for Vietnam.

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"ESA continues to offer European states easy access to space. Last time, we had the first Polish satellite launched into orbit," Antonio Fabrizi, director of launchers at the ESA explained. "This time it will be the case for Estonia to have a satellite in orbit."
According to ESA, Vega's capability to handle multiple mission at once will attract future commercial costumers, because this system helps reduce costs.
 Member States included in the agency, together with their industries, are investing about €1 billion in the introduction of Vega.