This year's first space launch from the Baikonur space port has been postponed until Wednesday due to bad weather, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday, February 5, according to RIA Novosti.

The launch of a Russian carrier rocket Soyuz-2.1a with six Globalstar-2 communication satellites was previously scheduled for 8:20 p.m. Moscow time (4:20 p.m. GMT).

According to Roscosmos, the launch was postponed because of strong winds at the altitude of eight to 10 kilometers.

Globalstar low-orbit communication satellites are used for providing mobile satellite communication services.

The first six second-generation satellites were orbited in October 2010. Another 12 were put into orbit in 2011 and 2012.