On April 30, 2014 at 01:35 UTC the “Vega (VV03)” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana. The rocket orbited the “KazEOSat-1” (Kazakhstan Earth Observation Satellite-1), a European-built satellite into a 466-mile-high polar orbit with a high-resolution telescope to survey cities, natural resources, and disasters for Kazakh government authorities.