Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: SpaceX has aborted the launch of a rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday due to poor weather.
Launch scrubbed today for weather, next opportunity tomorrow 4/14 at 4:10pm EDT.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 13, 2015
The next possible attempt has been rescheduled for 4:10 pm EDT/2014 GMT on Tuesday.
The countdown was aborted following a weather scrub on Monday.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in a Twitter post:
Launch postponed due to lightning from an approaching anvil cloud
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2015
The main aim of Falcon 9 rocket launch is to launch a Dragon cargo capsule carrying food, clothing and other equipments to ISS.
During a previous landing attempt in January, the rocket ran out of hydraulic fluid for its steering fins, causing it to crash into the platform.
A second attempt in February was called off because of high seas, but the rocket successfully ran through its pre-programmed landing sequence and hovered vertically above the waves before splashing down and breaking apart.
SpaceX is hired by NASA to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the space shuttles and its goal is development of fully reusable rockets.
(With Agency inputs)
