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The launch has been rescheduled to 15:55 GMT, 16th September, 2009.

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Russian space agency Roscosmos has imposed a 24-hour hold on the Soyuz-2 rocket, which will carry South Africa's Sumbandila satellite into space.
Reports from Baikonur Cosmodrome state that bad weather and telemetry glitches are the causes of the hold.

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Todays launch of the Soyuz 2 rocket was delayed due to bad weather.
The launch has been rescheduled to the 16th September, 2009.

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"Besides Meteor-M, the payload includes several smaller space units. The launch of the Soyuz-2 booster with the Fregat acceleration unit from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for 19:55 hours local time" - aerospace officials.

Additional payload during today's launch includes South Africa's Sumbandila remote-probing satellite, small Russian satellites "Sterkh," Univesitetsky - Tatyana-2," "UGATUSAT, "Blits," and the experimental satellite IRIS.

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Russia is to launch the new-generation  Meteor-M meteorological satellite aboard a Soyuz 2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage, from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, to provide the country with weather forecasting capabilities.
Currently, Russia does not have any weather satellites in orbit and uses meteorological data from U.S. and European weather agencies.
The 2,700 kilogram Meteor-M weather satellite and five smaller satellites will be launched on the 15th September, 2009. .
Meteor-M has a service life of five years, and will orbit at an altitude of 830 kilometres.

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Volga-Dnepr Airlines has assisted the Russian Space Programme by delivering Meteor-M satellite to its launch pad in Baikonour. The satellite together with its launch equipment amounted to a total cargo weight of 50 tons.

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Russia is set to launch its first weather satellite, Meteor-M1, in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Russia currently has no weather satellites and gets its information from foreign sources.
The 2.7 ton Meteor-M1 will be put into a 830 km orbit by a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle and a Frigate upper stage.
Its service life will be five to seven years.

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Russia has no weather satellites in orbit.
The Meteor-M spacecraft is to fill up this substantial gap in the satellite group in 2006, says a report by the Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos).
"The completion of the construction, tests and the launch of the Meteor-M weather satellite and a smaller craft Canopus-Vulkan (for detecting man-caused catastrophes and first signs of earthquakes and avalanches) are scheduled for 2006."
According to the draft of a new federal space program, allocations to remote Earth sensing will be almost 4 billion roubles in 2006.
So far, the Russian weather forecasting structures have to use rather expensive information from foreign weather satellites.
"We have only one weather satellite in orbit, Meteor-3M-1, which works in other directions but does not provide weather information due to malfunction. We use information from American, Japanese and some other land survey craft."



Before the 1990s, 32 Meteor-series weather satellites were built and launched on the orders of Rosgidromet. That craft was one of the key components of the Service's surveillance system and helped significantly improve the quality of weather forecasts and organize environmental monitoring of the vast territory of the former USSR.
But beginning in the 1990s the development of the domestic weather satellite system was halted due to financial problems.


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