Launch of Latvia’s first satellite Venta-1 into orbit put off

  • 2016-06-10
  • BNS/LETA/TBT STAFF/VENTSPILS
The Launch of Latvia’s first satellite Venta-1 into orbit planned this month has been put off, Aigars Krauze, a researcher at Ventspils University College and a co-ordinator of Venta-1 project, told LETA. It was planned that Venta-1 will be put into orbit by the PSLV C34 launch vehicle of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) along with 21 satellites from other countries. It would have been the highest number of satellites ever launched by the ISRO in a single mission. But the plan to launch the record-high number of satellites has increas...
 
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