Flight VS14 will orbit the Sentinel-1B satellite for the Copernicus program, on behalf of the European Commission and within the framework of a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). Also to be orbited on the mission are the French CNES space agency’s Microscope satellite, and three CubeSats for the ESA Education and Knowledge Management Office’s Fly Your Satellite! program.

Liftoff of the Soyuz launcher is now scheduled for Sunday, April 24, 2016, at the precise moment of: 

• 06:02:13 p.m., (Local time in French Guiana)
• 05:02:13 p.m., (in Washington, D.C.)
• 09:02:13 p.m., (UTC)
• 11:02:13 p.m., (in Paris)
• 00:02:13 a.m., (in Moscow) on April 25.