Weather

Lightning near launch pad scrubs liftoff of SpaceX supply ship

June 1, 2017

Stormy weather near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center kept SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on the ground Thursday, delaying liftoff of a commercial supply ship with equipment and experiments for the International Space Station until Saturday.

Atlas 5 rocket aims for Tuesday morning launch of supplies to space station

April 14, 2017

Air Force meteorologists on this Good Friday have released their initial forecast for Tuesday’s launch of a cargo ship to the International Space Station, predicting favorable conditions to fly the Atlas 5 booster on a commercial mission.

Atlas 5 rocket aims for Friday night launch to send supplies to space station

March 20, 2017

Officials have accepted a Friday launch date for a commercial cargo ship to the International Space Station after Range availability scuttled notions of moving up the Atlas 5 flight by a day.

Delta 4’s military launch bumped by commercial SpaceX flight, but good weather expected

March 15, 2017

With the SpaceX scrub earlier this week and the time needed to convert the Eastern Range over to the Delta 4, liftoff of that rocket carrying an internationally-purchased military communications satellite for the Air Force has been bumped to Saturday evening.

Favorable weather outlook for Friday’s twilight Delta 4 launch from Florida

March 14, 2017

Air Force meteorologists are expecting good weather to launch the Delta 4 rocket with a military communications satellite when the sun goes down Friday evening at Cape Canaveral.

Weather forecast now 80 percent ‘go’ for Thursday’s Atlas 5 rocket launch

January 15, 2017

Meteorologists are anticipating favorable odds of good weather during the countdown to launch an Atlas 5 rocket and U.S. military satellite on Thursday evening from Cape Canaveral.

Flock of ‘microsats’ launched to measure winds inside hurricanes

December 15, 2016

A winged Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket dropped from the belly of a carrier jet off the east coast of Florida and fired into orbit Thursday with eight research satellites to fly around the tropics and return measurements of winds at the cores of hurricanes.