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SpaceX announces delay of Falcon 9 rocket launch, now scheduled for Wednesday in Southern California
SpaceX’s latest launch has been scrubbed – again.
The new launch date is set for 6:17 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21. If that doesn’t work, the next opportunity to launch will be the same time Thursday.
Link to tweet
The Hawthorne-based space technology company’s latest mission is for one of its Falcon 9 rockets to carry a nearly 3-ton Earth-imaging satellite called Paz for Madrid-based operator Hisdesat was initially scheduled to launch Saturday, Feb. 17, at Vandenberg Air Force Base north of Santa Barbara.
That was postponed to Sunday to allow time for more pre-systems checks. The latest delay, according to a tweet Saturday, is to allow additional time for final checkouts.
Because Wednesday’s payload will be launched before sunrise, it could provide the public with an encore of the spectacular sight in December that sent people scrambling for their phones — to videotape the glowing plume and report a possible alien invasion to police.
Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/18/spacex-announces-delay-of-sunday-vandenberg-launch-now-scheduled-for-wednesday/
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