European Earth Observation Satellites Face Delays at Three Launch Sites

摘要

Three European Earth observation missions that had been scheduled for launch this summer are now facing delays of undetermined length because of unrelated issues at three different launch sites, European government officials said. The latest delay is to the European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm mission to study Earth's magnetic field. The three Swarm satellites were scheduled for launch in June aboard a Russian Rockot vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.