SpaceX on Saturday launched dozens of StarLink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX wrote on Twitter that the mission needed "more time for a checkout" and that the team was working to identify the next launch opportunity.
The launch - ET at 10:54 a.m. - will join its 10th StarLink mission and include 57 satellites as part of Elon Musk's mission, creating a cluster of high - speed satellites that can bring the speed of the Internet on a large scale. Remote swats of the world.
It will also carry two satellites from the SpaceX customer Blacksky via the private company Spaceflight. As of Friday afternoon, the weather for the launch was 60%, according to the Launch Mission Execution forecast. SpaceX did not give a reason to cancel the season.
These satellites are mounted on the Falcon 9 rocket.
On Saturday, the mission will launch the third SpaceX Starlink satellite within two months.
Starlink satellites initially led to controversy in the celestial community, with many expressing concern that their brightness would interfere with the visibility of the night sky. When the first batch launched last year, the American Astronomical Society reported seeing some UFOs.
In April, SpaceX announced a series of upgrades, promising to "make the new batch of satellites" invisible to the naked eye within a week of launch "and" darken the satellites "to satisfy the Observatory. Nope. By June, all future Starlink satellites will have "sun visions" that will prevent sunlight from touching the brightest parts of the spacecraft.
In a statement prior to the scheduled launch, SpaceX said, "All StarLink satellites on this spacecraft have a reflector wizard to block sunlight from the spacecraft's bright spots - SpaceX has been a major part of our work. Astronomical group to reduce satellite reflection."
The mission, which was canceled on Saturday, led to the private manned spaceflight's first manned launch in late May, with SpaceX teaming up with NASA to send astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. The historic plane sent American astronauts into space for the first time in almost a decade with American equipment and American soil.
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