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SpaceX postpones launch of US military’s secretive X-37B spaceplane
2023.12.12 23:35
© Reuters. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Thom Baur/ File photo
(Reuters) – SpaceX said it was standing down on Wednesday’s launch of the U.S. military’s X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission to orbit.
“We are standing down from tomorrow’s Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-52 to perform additional system checkouts,” SpaceX said in a tweet on Tuesday, without confirming a new launch date.
The original plan to send the spacecraft to orbit late on Sunday was scrubbed due to poor weather conditions at the Cape.
