PARIS — The European Space Agency on Oct. 24 postponed indefinitely the planned Nov. 18 launch of its intermediate experimental vehicle (IXV) — designed to make a suborbital equatorial flight to test re-entry technologies after launch aboard Europe’s Vega rocket — following concerns for range safety as Vega passes over the South American spaceport.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.