KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX is standing down from a planned launch for Sunday morning at the Kennedy Space Center.
What You Need To Know
- The launch was scheduled for Sunday at 4:31 a.m. EST
- SpaceX says it is planning another launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station next week
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SpaceX was targeting no earlier than Sunday at 4:31 a.m. EST for the Falcon 9 rocket launch, carrying more Starlink satellites from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
On Friday afternoon, SpaceX announced it wanted to conduct additional inspections.
SpaceX also said the team was preparing for another Falcon 9 launch with Starlink satellites at the end of next week from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Standing down from this weekend’s launch attempt of Starlink from LC-39A for additional inspections before flying one of our fleet-leading boosters, as the team continues to drive toward a separate Falcon 9 launch of Starlink from SLC-40 at the end of next week. pic.twitter.com/UvF0TUteQz
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 5, 2021
On Thursday, SpaceX sent up 60 Starlink satellites for its growing, worldwide broadband internet service.
It adds to the more than 1,000 of them already in orbit.
Sunday’s mission has been pushed back a few times. At one point, it was going to launch hours after Thursday’s mission, but it was pushed back to Friday.
But the private company decided to postpone that until Sunday “to allow time for pre-launch checks and recovery vessels to get on station after offloading fairing halves from previous mission,” it stated in a tweet.