MOSCOW. June 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The launch of Russia's weather satellite Meteor-M2 with a bunch of foreign micro-satellites may be adjourned for a few weeks from June 28, a rocket and space industry source told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.
"The launch will be postponed for two or four weeks because of slow pre-launch preparations of satellites at the space center. A final decision has yet to be made," the source said.
The Research and Production Corporation Space Monitoring Systems, Information and Control and Electromechanical Complexes, which designed and built Meteor-M, could neither deny nor conform the launch delay. "We have no such information," the press service told Interfax-AVN.
The additional payload consists of micro-satellites of the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States, as well as research satellite MKA-FKI (PN2) Relek and Russia's first private satellite DX1.
The cluster launch was originally scheduled for June 19.