The launch of an Israeli satellite was delayed by two weeks to allow time for the inspection of the launcher rocket. The satellite, designed at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, was scheduled to be launched June 23 from a Russian military facility in Kazakhstan.
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