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INSAT-3A launch postponed

Bangalore Feb. 23. The launch of India's INSAT-3A satellite has been postponed to April as the country's space agency and European space consortium, Arianespace, are taking extra care for its success, sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation said today.

The satellite, which would have applications in communication and meteorology, was originally scheduled to have been put into space by Arianespace's Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana anytime this month-end or early March.

``But this was postponed to March 21, and Arianespace has now informed us that they would be needing 20 days more (for the launch)'', the sources told PTI here.

PTI

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