CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Saturday morning's launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV was aborted.

Three seconds before liftoff, crews aborted the firing of its engines.

The launch team said it was due to an "unexpected condition."

It means a delay in sending up a classified spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office.​

 

ULA announced that it will be a minimum of seven days before the next attempt.

What You Need To Know

  • Delta IV Heavy launch aborted

  • 2 SpaceX launches are now scheduled for Sunday, one in the morning and one in the evening

For Sunday, SpaceX plans two launches. A Falcon 9 rocket for a Starlink mission is scheduled to go up from Kennedy Space Center on Launch Pad 39A at 10:12 a.m. Weather conditions are 50 percent favorable. 

Then at 7:18 p.m., SpaceX is planning to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with the SAOCOM satellite for Argentina's space agency. The liftoff is scheduled to take place at the Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 

If all three launches had gone off as planned, it would have been a trifecta: Three liftoffs in four days — which would be a record — beating three consecutive missions back in 2001, when a Titan 4, Delta II and a space shuttle launched within a five-day period.