According to news reports, a cargo aircraft carrying the commercial communications satellite Astra-2G from Moscow to the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, in Kazakhstan, has had to make an emergency landing at Ulyanovsk. An engine failure aboard the four-jet engine Antonov AN-124 aircraft, flown by the Volga-Dnepr cargo airline, was blamed.
The faulty jet engine is expected to be fixed or their aircraft replaced and the ILS-provided commercial Proton-M launch of the Astra-2G spacecraft for SLS should go ahead as planned on 27 November 2014, assuming there is no other issue preventing it. It had been suggested that a recent inaccurate launch by a Proton M carrying Express AM-6, may delay this launch while investigations to pinpoint the cause of that error were taking place.
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