The start of the ATLAS V carrier missile with the US Space Force Communication Satellite was transferred to December 6 due to fuel leakage in the ground storage. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the UNITED Launch Alliance Consortium (ULA).
The launch of Atlas V with the military satellite STPSAT-6 was to take place on December 5 from the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral (Florida). During the preparation, leakage was detected in the ground system for storing rocket fuel. The rocket starts on December 6 at 04:04 in the time of the east coast of the United States (12:04 in Moscow).
on the military satellite STPSAT-6, which will be withdrawn into the orbit atlas V rocket, infrared lasers are installed. The device is designed to receive and transmit data from the Earth orbit.