MOSCOW, June 8 –Ukraine's first national telecommunications satellite - the Lybid – will not be launched in 2013 due to the fact that it took a year-and-a-half to agree on the orbital position of the satellite, chief designer and director general of OJSC Information Satellite Systems "Reshetnev Company" (ISS) Nikolai Testoedov said in an interview with Interfax-AVN.

"We're working, but unfortunately, the project has been suspended for almost one-and-a-half years. The customer [the State Space Agency of Ukraine] had problems with the registration of orbital and frequency resources. Better to say, the issue of the allocation of an orbital slot for the satellite was being settled," he said.