"During the last step of the campaign of the VV06 (rocket) launching a technical issue in the Vega launch vehicle requires further analysis. The launch, initially scheduled for December 2, 2015 is postponed", said the Agency in a brief note.
ESA underlines that the LISA Pathfinder satellite, which aims to capture for the first time in direct gravitational waves, is in "stable and safe conditions".
European scientists are already trying to solve the problem and, after a "review of the results," tomorrow, will decide if the release can take place on Thursday, just 24 hours late.
The European satellite was scheduled to take off at 04.15 GMT on Wednesday on board a Vega rocket from the spaceport in the town of Kourou, French Guiana.
The LISA Pathfinder is to test a new technology that comes when you reach your destination, to 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, to register the gravitational waves, postulated by Albert Einstein a century ago in the General theory of relativity.
The German nobel argued that gravitational waves in space, some undulations produced in space-time events very violent as a supernova explosion or the merger of two black holes, were abundant and contained key information, such as the causes of its origin.
Among that information could be found, add experts, clues to some of the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos pending, as data on the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe.
But so far, the scientific community has never managed to capture these waves directly, despite evidence of its existence.
That's where comes in scene LISA Pathfinder, as prior, but crucial, step in this scientific research: its mission is to test small-scale innovative technology that show is effective, in the middle of the next decade will be installed in the future Observatory of gravitational waves of the ESA, the eLISA.
The President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, and his counterpart from France, François Hollande, today welcomed the progress in the construction of the first Peruvian satellite, which is built in that country and which will be completed July 2016.
Humala made Tuesday a visit of inspection to the premises of the company Airbus Defence and Spacie (ADS), in the city of Toulouse, France.
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During his stay, he spoke with the President of France by videoconference, who pledged to strengthen the process of construction of the Peruvian satellite for July 2016 this finished and can be launched into space.
The first Peruvian submeter satellite was bought from France on a Government to government agreement and will put Peru ahead in the development of science and technology in the region.
On the other hand, the President of France reiterated his country's support to the exoneration of the Schengen visa for trips of short duration of Peruvians to 26 countries of the European continent.
In this context, the Presidents augured that soon Peru and France may raise their bilateral relations to the level of strategic partnership, with particular emphasis in the areas of security, defence, health and education.
The night of 10 to 11 of September of 2015 Alba Navarro slept calmly that a 13-year-old child does in his home in Cordoba. Meanwhile, 6,000 kilometers away, in French Guiana, from the European spaceport Kourou, two new satellites they departed to orbit more than 23,000 kilometers of the Earth. One of them answered to the name of Alba.
The next morning this Andalusian girl saw in YouTube how its namesake satellite was launched from a Soyuz spacecraft, being this and Ariana the ninth and tenth satellites of the Galileo navigation system fleet. '' I saw him very expectant, all seemed very nervous at that time,"says Teknautas student at the British School of Córdoba. It is not surprising that they would be, the Galileo programme was an important step forward.
