Russian Dnepr Booster Not to Take AKS-1 Satellite "for Technical Reasons"
Posted on: Saturday, 19 June 2004, 06:00 CDT
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 19 June: The carrier rocket Dnepr, to be launched from the Baykonur cosmodrome, will not carry the Russian satellite AKS- 1. As an ITAR-TASS correspondent was told at the Russian Federation Space Troops, preparation work for the launch of the technological spacecraft AKS-1 has been suspended for technical reasons and at the request of the Aviation and Space Systems company.
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It is planned that the booster rocket will be launched from Baykonur on 29 June. The rocket will carry eight foreign satellites from France, Italy, the USA and Saudi Arabia into sun-synchronous orbit at the height of 700-800 km.
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