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Weather conditions are good for launch
Wind speeds are 26 km/h from the NE

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Humidity: 68%
Dew Point: 74 °F / 24 °C
Wind: 16 mph / 26 km/h / 7.2 m/s from the NE
Pressure: 29.90 in / 1012 hPa
Heat Index: 95 °F / 35 °C
Visibility: 10.0 miles / 16.1 kilometres
UV: 5 out of 16
Clouds: Few 2500 ft / 762 m
Few 6500 ft / 1981 m
Few 20000 ft / 6096 m
Scattered Clouds 30000 ft / 9144 m
Mostly Cloudy 40000 ft / 12192 m

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Filling of the first stage liquid oxygen tank is complete.

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Hum,
there seems to be a "RF (Radio frequency) compatibility issue"

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Launch has been rescheduled to  00:05 GMT (8:05 p.m. EDT).

Weather conditions are good for launch

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The DemoFlight 2 Launch has been scheduled for 23:30 GMT (7:30 p.m. EDT).

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"We have scrubbed for the day." With that statement, launch controllers at Kwajalein Atoll nixed any chance the Falcon 1 rocket would launch Monday, as crews work to get a handle on a reported communications glitch.

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Waiting for analysis.

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Scrubbed for 24 - 48 hours.
A new Launch time will be announced shortly

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There was a problem related to the `Range and telemetry` readings.

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-- Edited by Blobrana at 01:06, 2007-03-20

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T minus 2 minutes

Terminal count abort

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