It is five o'clock on Saturday morning, and there's just what it was really heart-stopping moment for business start - a last-second launch abort.
But it's a SpaceX flight, which often has an automatic cut-outs. In the past, the company can do a little troubleshooting, computers and reset again. But not today, when the launch window was about one second.
SpaceX aims to make the Dragon cargo capsule orbit crosses paths with the International Space Station. The company also wants to be stingy on fuel, so there is some padding there is a problem during the rendezvous, and that the test maneuvers must be completed before NASA approves the dock.
But it's a SpaceX flight, which often has an automatic cut-outs. In the past, the company can do a little troubleshooting, computers and reset again. But not today, when the launch window was about one second.
SpaceX aims to make the Dragon cargo capsule orbit crosses paths with the International Space Station. The company also wants to be stingy on fuel, so there is some padding there is a problem during the rendezvous, and that the test maneuvers must be completed before NASA approves the dock.
This is an ambitious mission.
"The whole Gemini program test objectives that are essentially concentrated in this one mission," said Jeff Grease, founder and CEO of XCOR Aerospace, forging another company in the future, the final frontier. "If you can get halfway there, it is still one of the books."
SpaceX to the next opportunity for launch is 3:44 PM EDT on Tuesday.
