 However, in 1974, at the time it became a joint venture with France, the MOK space station project was canceled, and in February 1976, the Soviet space program was reconfigured.When on 16 February 1979 production of the telescope was authorized, the plans for the Soviet space station modules had evolved to use the Functional Cargo Block of the TKS spacecraft instead, with the Kvant-1 Roentgen observatory eventually becoming the first such module for Mir – as a result of these changes the "Gamma observatory" was redesigned as the free flying "Gamma satellite".At that time the telescope was authorized in 1979, it was planned to be launched in 1984, but the actual launch was delayed until 1990.