SpaceX Launch Delayed Again
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. postponed its first-ever satellite launch on Saturday after a series of last-minute snags.
A spokeswoman for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. told MSNBC.com that it will be a minimum of one or two weeks before the company, also known as SpaceX, can try again. Dianne Molina said the delay was due to the need to ship liquid oxygen and helium to the launch complex on an island in the Pacific Ocean’s Kwajalein Atoll.
SpaceX developed its partially reusable Falcon 1 rocket as a low-cost alternative in a space launch industry dominated by aerospace giants Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. This first-ever launch is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, with a payload sponsored by the Air Force.
Source: MSNBC.
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