MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd December, 2019) The first launch of Russian Gonets satellites via a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Plesetsk space center is delayed from the summer to the end of 2020, a source in the space industry told Sputnik on Sunday.
"First three Gonets satellites atop a Soyuz 2.1b rocket is delayed from the middle of the year to the fourth quarter of 2020," the source said.
According to the source, a delay is not related to the readiness of spacecraft.
Roscosmos did not provide Sputnik with any comments on this information.