Originally, the mission was scheduled to go up on Tuesday, April 18, but it was pushed back to Wednesday, April 26, then again on Thursday due to severe weather.
SpaceX will not attempt to collect or land the boosters for this mission and will simply fall into the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, there will not be any landing legs on the first-stage boosters of the rocket.
The countdown clock stopped at T-59 seconds before the 8:26 p.m. EDT launch and then was reset to 15 minutes before SpaceX stated it was aborting the mission. SpaceX was hoping to try again on Saturday. All systems are looking good; weather conditions for tonight’s launch opportunity are currently ~30% favorableWhile SpaceX has not confirmed when the lightning struck the tower, it appears to have happened about an hour after the company called off its Thursday night launch of three communication satellites from three different companies.
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