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MetOp satellite's launch was postponed to today

Rome, Italy - A series of technical problems obliged to delay the new tool's put in orbit

It doesn’t seem to sturt under good wishes the work of the weather prediction satellite MetOp (see for details AVIONEWS). The satellite had to be put in orbit on last Monday by Russian base in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, but at the last moment, after an order of the control center of the European Space Agency of Darmstadt, Germany, because of a technical problem, the launch has been postponed to yesterday. T...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 145174
Rome, Italy, 07/19/2006 13:28
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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