Click to play videoNew Delhi: The launch of India's latest telecommunication satellite INSAT-4B has been deferred at the Kourou spaceport in French Guyana on Sunday.
The launch was postponed after the anomaly in the launch pad was detected during the countdown for the lift-off.
The countdown was put on a temporary hold seven minutes before the 33 minute launch window was to open at 0355 hrs, IST. Both the satellites have been put on a safe mode and there will be a fresh attempt on Monday.
The anomaly relating to "water deluge system" that is intended to reduce the acoustics level for the safety of the launch pad prompted the commercial launch services provider Ariane space to put the countdown on a "temporary hold" seven minutes before the launch window was to open, PTI quoted ISRO officials as saying.
"Both the spacecraft - INSAT-4B and its co-passenger Skynet 5A of EADS Astrium - are in a safe mode. We are going to work and make a new attempt tomorrow", an Ariane space official said at the mission control centre.
In its first launch of the year, Ariane launcher was to put into orbit the 3,025 kg INSAT-4B, meant to boost Direct to Home (DTH) TV services and augment the INSAT capacity, and the 4,700 kg Skynet 5A built by Astrium on behalf of Paradigm which provides services to the British Ministry of Defence.
INSAT-4B, which carries 12 high power Ku band and 12 C-band transponders is the 13th ISRO satellite to use the European launcher since India's first experimental satellite Apple in 1981.
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