Total Pageviews

Tuesday 10 February 2015

SpaceX postpones its reusable Falcon 9 launch again


SpaceX's latest Falcon 9 launch was postponed once again, this time due to extreme upper-level winds. The launch has been rescheduled for tomorrow at 6:03PM ET. This was the third time the company had to postpone the launch, which was originally scheduled for Sunday.


The high winds were seen throughout the day both on the ground and at 25,000 feet. Elon Musk foreshadowed the postponement earlier in the afternoon:



Even with the scrubbed launch this was still a busy day for SpaceX. One of its Dragon cargo capsules separated from the International Space Station earlier...


Continue reading…






from The Verge - All Posts http://ift.tt/1vDcFvZ

via IFTTT

No comments:

Post a Comment