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The Elon Musk-founded business will surpass its record of 31 launches from Florida and California last year if it is successful on Friday. However, teams started planning to drain the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket's propellants after canceling the Thursday deployment.ĪLSO READ: NASA Says SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Will Launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to Space The feed showed a launchpad enveloped in the fog that concealed the rocket on a gloomy day at the company's California launch location while raindrops speckled the camera lens.Īccording to Space Flight Now, SpaceX's launch director announced the countdown. However, she noted that today's launch is not anticipated. "Given that, we are overly cautious on the ground, and if the team or the vehicle sees anything that looks even slightly off, they will stop the countdown as we saw today," she explained.Īccording to Tice, the vehicle and payload are in good condition, and the crew attempted to recycle inside the timeframe. "There are a thousand ways a launch can go wrong, and only one way that it can go right," Kate Tice, manager of quality systems engineering at SpaceX, stated during the live launch commentary (per ). In a tweet, SpaceX announced that the launch would proceed "despite the fog" but did not provide an explanation for the delay.ĭespite the fog, all systems and weather are go for today's Falcon 9 launch of Starlink liftoff in ~30 minutes → /4N2scVohLH- SpaceX July 21, 2022 local time) on Thursday but has since been moved to the same time on Friday. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket launch was initially slated to take place at 1:39 p.m. SpaceX Pushes Back Falcon 9 Rocket Launch to Friday In this SpaceX handout image, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard at Launch Complex 39A May 30, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.