Launch of Egypt's 1st Communication Satellite into Orbit Postponed
Saturday 23/November/2019 - 03:02 PM
Egypt has postponed the launch of its first
communication satellite into orbit for technical reasons.
Tiba-1 was due to launch at 2108 GMT on Friday on
one of Europe's Arianespace rockets from a space center in French Guiana.
It is named after Thebes or Tiba in Arabic, an
ancient Egyptian capital the ruins of which lie within the modern southern city
of Luxor.
Arianespace issued a statement indicating that the
targeted launch date is on Sunday, at the earliest.
“Due to a power supply anomaly in the ground segment
of the Ariane 5 launch complex, the final chronology for Flight VA250 was
stopped at 20 minutes prior to liftoff, leading to a launch postponement,” the
statement reads.
