Russians declared a "NO-GO" on the launcher

Yesterday evening Russians declared a problem on the Launcher side that will definitely lead to a delay of the launch date.

At that stage, please refer to the main ESA portal or the CryoSat-2 portal for the latest official information when it becomes known.

As a direct consequence, the "dress rehearsal" has been canceled for today. All efforts will now aim to put the Spacecraft within the safest configuration and location for this unexpected storage period. To that respect, it is considered to bring CryoSat-2 back to the MIK on site 31 area B. Then, some "baby sitting" activities will be organised.

Long discussions with the Russians will take place today to reach a credible re-planning. It is premature, without consolidated information to tell more now.
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Some of the team members may think that they will now spend the rest of their life in Kazakhstan till a successful fix is announced. Just a practical info: the Kazakh cemetery lays just behind the hotel :-)

Credits: Bill

Some others may start packing for a short visit to their home place


But like these happy penguins on an EGSE screen saver, the CryoSat-2 team, beyond the evident disappointment, keeps an excellent moral,


and will show, as usual, in the next days high professional skills and commitment.