DSCOVR Launch And SpaceX Barge Landing Attempt Delayed Until Tuesday

The launch of the Deep Space Climate Observatory ( DSCOVR ) and 2nd SpaceX lighter landing attempt call off yesterday have been delayed until tomorrow due to unfriendly weather .

Along with launching a newfangled NOAA satellite to monitor incoming cornal mass ejections and solar storms , the launch will tag SpaceX ’s second endeavor at soft - landing the Falcon 9 booster rocket on a hoy in the Atlantic Ocean . If SpaceX can follow , this will bean authoritative step forward in reclaimable spaceflight , a concept that requires more expensive initial ingredient but may drop the overall launching cost once perfect . This is the second attack at a barge landing : the arugula play out of hydraulic fluid and go down into the drone ship during the first attempt .

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After problems with Air Force trailing arrangement and a television transmitter on the rocket boosterscrubbed the launch attempt yesterday with only minutes in the countdown , the launching was initially reschedule for this good afternoon . Even then , the atmospheric condition looked ominous , with a 60 % forecast for violating the weather prescript . Today , the weather looks just as foreboding . push ahead with the launch windowpane today would shut down either Tuesday or Wednesday ’s attempts because of crew rest requirements , so the team decided to scrub the attempt before it started .

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This minor delay also present the SpaceX crew more time to replace a defective video vector on the first stage , a fixture that is n’t strictly necessary but isvery dainty to have , peculiarly if this barge landing attempt is the one that succeeds . The novel trajectory windowpane is Tuesday at 6:05 pm EST . If that , too , is scrubbed , the next window is Wednesday at 6:03 premier EST .

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