![[your]NEWS](https://yournews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/yourNEWS_logo.png){kind=logo}
Russian rocket glitch to delay satellite launch for U.S. startup OneWeb
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket set to carry satellites into space for U.S startup OneWeb has been delayed after an anomaly was discovered on the rocket, company chairman Greg Wyler said on Thursday.
The rocket was set to take off next month from Guiana Space Centre propelling the first of a series of satellites into orbit that Virginia-based startup OneWeb plans to use to create a worldwide internet service.
"It's true, there is an anomaly on the rocket which will cause us to push out the launch. Our satellites are ready to go! More to come," Wyler wrote on Twitter.
In a separate statement, OneWeb confirmed it had been informed of a technical issue on the Fregat upper stage of the Soyuz launcher, but did not say the launch had been postponed.
"Such events are not uncommon in the launch industry. OneWeb and Arianespace with their Russian partners, remain focused on launch success and launch preparation activities," it said in a statement.
Arianespace is majority-owned by a joint venture of Airbus and Safran.
(Reporting by Tom Balmforth and Maria Kolomychenko; editing by Jason Neely)
More Top Stories
Trump’s ‘relentless attack’ on FBI prompted memoir by former official: NPR
Former top FBI official Andrew McCabe decried the “relentless attack” he said U.S. President Donald Trump has launched against the agency, according to released excerpts …
read more
CBS’s Lara Logan Calls Media ‘Mostly Liberal’ in Scorched Earth Interview: I’m Committing ‘Professional Suicide’
In a recent interview, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Lara Logancritiqued the international “liberal” media while holding up outlets like Breitbart as the opposite side of …
read more
Cartel Ambushes Mexican Soldiers near Texas Border
An ambush by gunmen from a faction of Los Zetas killed one Mexican soldier and injured two others in Nuevo Laredo.
read more
U.S.-backed Syrian forces call for 1,500 coalition troops to stay
The commander of U.S.-backed forces in Syria called on Monday for about 1,000 to 1,500 international forces to remain in Syria to help fight Islamic …
read more
Trump to say Venezuela’s military at risk for supporting Maduro
U.S. President Donald Trump will say in a speech on Monday that Venezuela’s path toward democracy is irreversible and that Venezuelan military officials should work …
read more
Seven lawmakers quit UK Labour Party citing Brexit ‘betrayal’, anti-Semitism
Seven Labour lawmakers quit Britain’s main opposition party on Monday over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Labour had …
read more
