MOSCOW. Dec 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) has canceled a planned annual meeting on Saturday of its top officials that was to be attended by the chief executives of all enterprises in the space rocket industry.
The reason for the cancellation was a planned launch on Saturday of a Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rocket, a Roscosmos source told Interfax-AVN.
"The postponement of the launching of the new Soyuz-2.1v rocket from December 23 to Saturday due to extra technical tests that were needed has made the Roscosmos leadership change its plans, and the meeting will take place later," he said.
The source said the meeting was to deal with organizational and output quality issues in the industry, the source said.
He said the meeting was to be chaired by Roscosmos head Oleg Ostapenko, who is expected to attend the rocket's launch at Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome.