The launch of the RS-20 rocket carrying the European satellite CryoSat-2 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome scheduled for late February has been postponed by at least a week due to technical problems, a source at Baikonur told Interfax on Friday.
"Specialists from the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (Ukraine), which developed the software for RS-20, analyzed the interaction between the rocket and the satellite and detected a conflict in their software," the source said.
"The software refinement, installation and verification could take a few days. Specialists forecast that the launch of the CryoSat-2 atop the RS-20 rocket will not happen in less than a week and a half," the source said.
The launch of the RS-20 rocket carrying the European research satellite CryoSat-2 under the Dnepr conversion program was scheduled for 0456 Moscow time on February 25.
