Stormy weather prompted the Air Force to call off the planned launch this afternoon of a Delta 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The satellite-deployment mission has been rescheduled for Friday. The 12-story Boeing rocket and its payload -- the third modernized Navstar Global Positioning System spacecraft -- are scheduled to blast off during a window that will extend from 2:12 p.m. to 2:26 p.m. (19:12 - 19:26 GMT) Friday.
Don't let the beautiful weather in central Florida today fool you. The forecast for the planned launch of a Delta 2 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday is going from bad to worse, with only a 30 percent chance that conditions will be acceptable for liftoff.
The planned launch this week of a Boeing Delta 2 rocket and a military navigation satellite is being pushed back to Thursday to give technicians time to swap out faulty components on the second stage of the launch vehicle. The 12-story rocket and its payload -- a Navstar Global Positioning System satellite -- now are slated to blast off at 2:17 p.m. Thursday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17.
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket in a 7925 launch configuration will launch the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System Block 2R military navigation satellite, GPS 2R-16 (M3) from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida at 19:21-19:34 GMT, 15th November.