The launch of the SpaceX Falcon-9 launch vehicle with the Italian Earth observation satellite COSMO-SkyMed has been postponed by one day due to unfavorable weather conditions, reports TASS.
The rocket launch was scheduled to take place from the John F. Kennedy Space Center site at 6:11 p.m. EST (2:11 a.m. Moscow time).
Information about the cancellation of the launch due to adverse weather conditions appeared a few minutes before the launch.
Note that the launch was originally scheduled for Thursday, January 27, but was postponed to Friday for similar reasons.
Earlier it was reported that China launched an experimental communications satellite into orbit Shiyan-9.