Sentence examples for postpone launch from inspiring English sources

A rip in the insulation protecting part of the Cassini spacecraft is forcing NASA to postpone launch of the Saturn-bound mission from its original 6 October launch date.

The big waste-treatment companies in Britain were aghast last year when the government twice postponed launching a new scheme for licensing the management of landfills.

Experts in Seoul and Tokyo had speculated that technical glitches may have forced scientists to postpone the launch of the finicky three-stage rocket, its fifth attempt since 1998.

Still, engineers are continuing to study the insulation problem and may yet decide this evening to postpone the launch once again.

Not for the first time, NASA will postpone the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope by at least a year, to May 2020, the agency announced Tuesday.

Russia said it was likely to bring forward the flight of a new manned space mission, but postpone the launch of a cargo ship scheduled for 31 October.

To cap a dreadful week for Mr Duncan Smith, in which he was forced to postpone the launch of the Tories' local election campaign, Kenneth Clarke made it clear that he still has his eye on the leadership.

Someone with the power to kill or postpone a launch.

UPDATE, 3/28/13: Weeks after this story was posted, T-Mobile cancelled its contract with Tagstand, and decided to postpone the launch of its TapTags indefinitely.

On Tuesday a vibration test of the High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI) went mysteriously awry, damaging the spacecraft's solar panels and possibly other components and forcing NASA to postpone its launch from July to January 2001.

As News.com.au reported last year, there have been numerous incidents of airlines selling tickets for new routes in advance, and failing to notify passengers when they cancel or postpone the launch of those routes.