* Astronomy

The launch of  a  Persona military reconnaissance satellite aboard a Soyuz Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Site LC-43/4 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome has been postponed by twenty-four hours.
Launch had been scheduled for  18:50 UTC, 25 July 2008.

"The state commission led by Space Troops Commander Maj. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko has decided to postponed the launch of the Soyuz 2 rocket carrier with the spacecraft for 24 hours" - Commander Alexei Zolotukhin, Assistant to the Space Troops.

The Persona optical reconnaissance satellite will be place into a sun synchronous orbit