Insat launch delay likely

BANGALORE, JULY 19. The launch of India's Insat-3C, scheduled between September 10 and 15, may be delayed after the French agency, Arianespace, suffered a rare setback last week when its `flight 142,' which took off from the Kourou

Spaceport, ended up in a ``lower than expected orbit,'' the Indian Space Research Organisation sources said today.

``Arianespace is currently analysing the data. There could be some delay (in the launch of Insat-3C). We have not heard from them. We are waiting for word from them,'' the sources told PTI here.

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