Sri Lanka’s maiden satellite launch delayed by five days

Sri Lanka’s maiden satellite launch delayed by five days

November 22, 2012   08:01 am

Sri Lanka’s maiden satellite launch has been delayed by five days due to technical difficulties and weather conditions, Space Systems Engineer Rohitha Rajapaksa stated.

 

The Supremesat’s engineers are working with the Chinese engineering team to fix these issues at the moment while he stated that a new launch time will be announced by tomorrow (November 23).

 

Sri Lanka’s maiden satellite was scheduled to be launched today (November 22).

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