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INSAT-3E launch postponed

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI Aug. 12. The launch of Indian Space Research Organisation's latest satellite, the INSAT - 3E, has been put off by about a week.

According to the European Space Agency, Arianespace, which will place in orbit the satellite, in one of its rockets from the French Guyanese spaceport, Kourou, the launch will be on September 3.

INSAT - 3E, along with two other payloads, SMART-1 and BIRD, were slated to be placed in orbit on August 28.

The delay follows a request for "additional verification" time from one of the customers of Arianespace.

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