After the last crash of Progress space craft, an officials started to investigate the reasons of it. Many commercial launches use the same Soyuz vehicle and Globalstar planned to have their third 2011 launch of another six second generation satellites on 8 of October seems to change their plans. At night of 9 September the commision declared their results and Globalstar prefers to wait until another Progress will be launched and only after that schedule their new launch. Soyuz 2.1a with Fregat acceleration module and RD-0110 engine that will be used for the Globalstar launch is exactly the same model as crashed Progress had. Some sources say that Russians are trying to convince Globalstar to keep the original schedule but this is not confirmed. The new launch schedule is expected to be presented on Tuesday 13 September.
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