Thursday, February 25, 2016

SpaceX Falcon rocket launch called off for second straight day

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Jason-3 spacecraft onboard is shown at Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex 4 East in Vandenberg Air Force Base CaliforniaCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - SpaceX called off a planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a communications satellite less than two minutes before blastoff from Florida on Thursday, citing a technical problem. It marked the second straight day that Elon Musk's privately owned Space Exploration Technologies had postponed the launch. (Reporting by Irene Klotz; Editing by Steve Gorman and Lisa Shumaker)


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