PLESETSK, Russia, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The launch of an Iranian spy satellite on a Russian booster this month has been postponed.
The Sina-1 spy satellite, Iran's first, was to have been launched Sept. 30 from the high security Plesetsk cosmodrome in Central Russia on a Kosmos-3 booster rocket. But the launch has been postponed to a later date because its Russian manufacturers could not prepare it in time, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Tuesday.
The chief of the press service of Space Troops, Col. Alexei Kuznetsov, told Itar-Tass that the launch was put off until October because of a delay in the manufacture of Iran's satellite Sina-1 that will be a part of the payload. The manufacturer of the Iranian satellite is Omsk's company Polyot.
Kuznetsov said that Kosmos-3 was to deliver into orbit Mozhayets and five remote probing satellites designed by the British company SSTI.
The launch of the research satellite that was developed in the Mozhaisky Military Space Academy was initially planned for August, but it was postponed because it was not ready.
