After considering a Tuesday evening launch, SpaceX has now reset SES-9 to Friday due to wind shear at high altitudes. Pushing launch to Friday due to extreme high altitude wind shear. Hits like a sledgehammer when going up supersonic pic.twitter.com/Gr8T5upaLd — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 1, 2016 Original story: Sometimes, it just isn’t your […]
After foregoing a launch attempt on the first day of a two day window, the SpaceX SES-9 was scrubbed at T-1:41 on the countdown clock Thursday evening. Based on flight commentary by SpaceX’s John Insprucker, initial indications seemed to suggest that the launch team actually ran out of time in the effort to conduct propellant […]
For most of the afternoon, it looked as if a steady breeze coming off the Atlantic Ocean would keep a series of storms away from Cape Canaveral and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sitting on the pad at SLC-40. And for a while, they did, as SpaceX made it to three minutes remaining in an […]
Update: NOAA’s is, or rather was, stating via the NOAA Satellites twitter account, that the DSCOVR launch has been pushed back to Tuesday at the earliest, due to weather concerns. The original tweet appears to have been deleted however. Original story: This evening’s launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster carrying the DSCOVR spacecraft was […]
Back to the Hangar/ Image Credit SpaceX SpaceX has scrubbed the launch of AsiaSat 6, which had been scheduled for 12:50 AM EDT tonight. Although no statement has been forthcoming as to the cause of the scrub, the use of the word “indefinitely” to describe the delay suggests it may be tied last Friday’s Falcon […]
It was a weekend that most of us would rather forget. For SpaceX and Orbomm, as well as disappointed supporters, and more than a few in the space media who let slip their frustrations, and their bias, it was not a pretty scene. Three launch attempts, three scrubs, and a virtual media blackout on Saturday […]
The rocket was ready. The satellites were ready. Without a doubt both SpaceX and Orbcomm were ready. But the weather, that fickle Florida weather, which held off for yesterday’s launch attempt, was also ready, to wreck some havoc of its own. After moving today’s liftoff time to the end of the launch window to allow […]
SpaceX is feeling the pressure, or more accurately, the lack of sufficient pressure. In what is turning out to its most frustrating launch campaign since the days on Kwajalein, SpaceX was forced to scrub today’s planned flight of the Orbcomm OG2 mission after receiving indications that pressures were falling off in the Falcon 9 second […]
Space News is reporting that the May 9th scrub of the SpaceX/Orbcomm launch scheduled for the following day was caused by a helium leak detected during the fueling procedure for a static test fire. The leak is apparently unrelated to a different problem which cropped up shortly before liftoff on April 14th, as the Falcon […]
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