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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – Space Exploration Technologies or “SpaceX” has confirmed that their next attempt to launch AsiaSat 6
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Florida will be no earlier than Sunday,Sept. 7. The communications satellite will
provide video broadcasts and data services to China and Southeast Asia over the next 15 years.
SpaceX plans to launch a Hong Kong-based telecommunications satellite into orbit atop their Falcon 9 rocket at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT). The 3-hour and 14-
minute launch window extends until 4:04 a.m. EDT with favorable weather conditions listed as being at about 70 percent. Weather forecasts are showing a chance of rain showers with partly cloudy
skies throughout the launch window. At 3 p.m. EDT, Cape Canaveral went under a Phase II lightning warning – one which
apparently would extend through 7:30 p.m. EDT.
Originally slated for August 27, SpaceX postponed the launch in order to conduct a systems check on the rocket’s fault detection software following the destruction of a reusable Falcon prototype
exploded during a test flight in Texas on August 22. However, a statement released by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk a few hours after the scrub reassured that there was no direct correlation between the
failure of their test rocket in Texas and the current rocket in Florida.
Read more at: http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial-space-space-flight-missions/spacex/asiasat-6-poised-launch-atop-falcon-9-rocket-weekend/
from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) in Florida will be no earlier than Sunday,Sept. 7. The communications satellite will
provide video broadcasts and data services to China and Southeast Asia over the next 15 years.
SpaceX plans to launch a Hong Kong-based telecommunications satellite into orbit atop their Falcon 9 rocket at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT). The 3-hour and 14-
minute launch window extends until 4:04 a.m. EDT with favorable weather conditions listed as being at about 70 percent. Weather forecasts are showing a chance of rain showers with partly cloudy
skies throughout the launch window. At 3 p.m. EDT, Cape Canaveral went under a Phase II lightning warning – one which
apparently would extend through 7:30 p.m. EDT.
Originally slated for August 27, SpaceX postponed the launch in order to conduct a systems check on the rocket’s fault detection software following the destruction of a reusable Falcon prototype
exploded during a test flight in Texas on August 22. However, a statement released by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk a few hours after the scrub reassured that there was no direct correlation between the
failure of their test rocket in Texas and the current rocket in Florida.
Read more at: http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial-space-space-flight-missions/spacex/asiasat-6-poised-launch-atop-falcon-9-rocket-weekend/
