SpaceX calls off Sirius XM satellite open at final minute
SpaceX called off the open of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a new Sirius XM satellite on Friday (Dec. 11), halting the flight on the final minute for additional blueprint assessments.
The Falcon 9 rocket was 30 seconds away from lifting off at 12: 55 p.m. EST (1755 GMT) from Home Launch Advanced 40 on the Cape Canaveral Home Force Station in Florida when SpaceX stopped the open. The rocket is carrying the SXM-7 satellite for Sirius XM.
“Standing down from this day’s open strive to assemble extra ground blueprint checkouts; teams are working against no earlier than Sunday, December 13 for next open strive of SXM-7,” SpaceX wrote in an update on Twitter. A Sunday open strive would eliminate off at 7: 13 a.m. EST (1213 GMT).
You shall be in a attach to stare that open action are living right here and on the Home.com homepage, courtesy of SpaceX. You might maybe maybe maybe presumably furthermore stare straight from SpaceX right here about 15 minutes before liftoff.
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SpaceX is launching the SXM-7 satellite for satellite radio provider Sirius XM on this mission. SXM-7 is a 15,432-lb. (7,000 kilograms) radio communications satellite designed to support Sirius subscribers at some level of the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.
The Falcon 9 rocket for this mission is a extinct SpaceX booster making its seventh open into location. It beforehand launched an uncrewed Crew Dragon take a look at flight for NASA in 2019, the Radarsat constellation for Canada later that year, after which four Starlink satellite files superhighway missions in 2020.
The SMX-7 mission will label the 2d time SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 for the seventh time.
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