The launch of a European telecommunications satellite from Kazakhstan was postponed on Monday after Kazakh authorities raised objections, Russian news agencies reported.
"The launch of the European space device has been postponed indefinitely by the Kazakh side, even though all documents are in order," an official from Russian space agency Roskosmos told Ria Novosti and Interfax.
He did not provide further details.
ITAR-TASS news agency, citing a Roskosmos source, reported that the launch of the Eutelsat-W7 satellite could occur on Tuesday at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome.
The satellite, designed by French company Thales, is to be launched by a Russian Proton rocket and will provide telecommunications services for Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
In recent years, Proton rockets, Russia's most powerful, have exploded in air several times over Kazakhstan, angering local authorities.
Kazakhstan temporarily blocked Proton launches in September 2007 after a rocket crashed near the area where President Nursultan Nazarbayev was located.
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