19.07.2006, 13:55 2592

Booster rocket Union launch postponed for a day

Baikonur. July 19. Kazakhstan Today - Booster rocket Souyz-2-1A with space vehicle Metop launch from cosmodrome Baikonur has been postponed for a day again due to technical problems, the agency reports.

The launch has been postponed for reserve day - July 19, the same time – 22.58 p.m., Astana time.

Fuel has been poured off the booster rocket in the hope to define malfunction. "The opportunity of booster rocket removal off starting "platform" and transportation to the assembly-test case has not been planned yet," Federal Space Center Baikonur press secretary Oleg Urusov informed. Souyz-2-1A is a new rocket being launched for the first time from Baikonur; therefore some technical problems are quite explainable.

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