Russia Postpones Test Launch Of New Booster Rocket

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File image of a Soyuz launch from Plesetsk.

Moscow (XNA) Oct 29, 2004
Russia has postponed the test launch of a new booster rocket scheduled for Friday, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.

The launch of the Soyuz-2 medium-size rocket from Russia's Plesetsk cosmodrome was delayed due to software defects discovered during preparations and it is not clear when the launch will resume, the Interfax news agency quoted the ministry as saying.

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said earlier that the new version of the Soyuz rocket will be used for military, civil and commercial space launches.

The rocket, which offers superior carrying capacity thanks to its advanced energy parameters, is designed for taking manned and unmanned spacecraft to low, medium, high, solar synchronized, geo-transitional and geo-stationary orbits.

The Soyuz-2 boasts the latest digital control system which will increase the precision of operations.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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Russia To Launch New Telecommunications Satellite

Moscow (XNA) Oct 29, 2004
A Russian Proton-M rocket will lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Saturday to deliver a telecommunications satellite into space, the Federal Space Agency said on Thursday.

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