It was postponed for about 10 days, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS
MOSCOW, November 23. /TASS/. The launch of three Gonets-M communications satellites from the Plesetsk cosmodrome was postponed for about 10 days due to comments on the rocket. This was reported to TASS by a source in the rocket and space industry.
"There will be no launch on November 24. The launch shift is about 10 days, " the source said.
According to the source, the transfer is related to comments on the rocket. "It will be disassembled and a number of parts will be changed," he said.
Earlier, a source in the rocket and space industry told TASS about the planned launch of three Gonets-M communications satellites from Plesetsk on November 24. Last week, the commander of aerospace forces of Russia Colonel General Sergei Surovikin reported defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that the launch of the carrier rocket "Soyuz-2" with orbit block spacecraft on 24 November. At that time, the Russian defense Ministry's combat team was completing technological operations to prepare the launch vehicle for export to the launch complex.
Gonets is the only Russian low-orbit mobile satellite communication system designed for global exchange of information with mobile and stationary objects, as well as for organizing retransmission channels for various purposes.