SpaceX aims to make another attempt to test fire Falcon 9 rocket engines in the next several days, after sorting out the cause of an aborted countdown earlier this week.
The nine Merlin 1C engines could roar to life as early as today, but it's already pouring at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and the forecast also calls for a 60 percent chance of lightning, and strong, gusty winds.
Similar conditions thwarted plans to try again Thursday. Today's window will be about 1 to 4 p.m.
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3 comments:
How is that "rebounding"? They had a test fire failure, they then scrub for the weather. Please, tell me how that is rebounding. We can all claim lessons learned from failures, but this is getting crazy.
your comment is crazy. problems like this are to be expected.
It is rebounding because they did not know the cause of the abort at first. Read the details...
"SpaceX founder Elon Musk said in an e-mail that engineers traced the countdown cutoff to the failure of a ground support system valve that plays a key role in an engine startup sequence."
"Nothing was wrong with the Falcon 9 rocket."
That sounds to me like they have rebounded and are ready to go as soon as the weather permits.
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