Russia’s government commission has put off the launch of a Soyuz-FG flight vehicle with the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft to October 19, the press service of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said.
“After a scrutiny of materials on troubleshooting and removal of equipment malfunctions aboard the Soyuz MS-02 ship, the government commission decided to appoint the launch for October 19”, the corporation said in a report.
A source reported in the meantime the cause of the delay was a squeezed cable aboard the Soyuz MS-02. (Russian Aviation/Business World Magazine)