Russia reschedules Soyuz launch after failure to blast off
By : AFP
Date:
11 February 2018 11:21am WAT
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A handout photo released on January 28, 2017 by the CNES shows the launch of a Soyuz rocket on January 27 from the European Spaceport in Kourou, in French Guiana, to put into orbit a telecommunications satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.
P PIRON / CNES / AFP
A handout photo released on January 28, 2017 by the CNES shows the launch of a Soyuz rocket on January 27 from the European Spaceport in Kourou, in French Guiana, to put into orbit a telecommunications satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.
P PIRON / CNES / AFP
A handout photo released on January 28, 2017 by the CNES shows the launch of a Soyuz rocket on January 27 from the European Spaceport in Kourou, in French Guiana, to put into orbit a telecommunications satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat. P PIRON / CNES / AFPRussian space agency Roscosmos has delayed the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship by two days after Sunday’s planned lift-off was aborted at the last minute.
“During the launch, an order was made for the engines to be automatically turned off, the causes are being clarified,” a Roscosmos statement said.
“The launch is rescheduled for the reserve date of February 13.”
The supply freighter, known as Progress 69, was mounted atop a Soyuz2.1a which had been scheduled to lift off from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the aim of reaching the International Space Station (ISS) in a record three-and-a-half hours.
Earlier, a source in the Russian space agency told news agency Interfax that the launch may have failed due to a computer failure in the control system.
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