Latest SpaceX Launch Now Set For Saturday
December 18, 2020 10:43AM CST
HAWTHORNE-CA-MAY 29: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils the company’s new manned spacecraft, The Dragon V2 (L) designed to carry astronauts into space with the Dragon unmanned spacecraft suspended in air during a news conference on May 29, 2014, in Hawthorne, California. The private spaceflight company has been flying unmanned capsules to the International Space Station delivering cargo for the past two years. The Dragon V2 manned spacecraft will ferry up to seven astronauts to low-Earth orbit. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
A SpaceX rocket launch set for this morning is now looking to be set off on Saturday. On Twitter, the company announced they would use today to take more time for system checkouts.
The original launch Thursday resulted in a hold call with two minutes left on the countdown because of a sensor reading.
SpaceX is launching a spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office that will provide intelligence data to U.S. senior policy makers, the intelligence community and the Department of Defense.
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