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- SpaceX was forced to delay the launch of yet another batch of Starlink satellites after rough seas were reported in the recovery area.
- The company's drone ships are capable of dealing with turbulent seas, but the current was simply too strong this time.
- A new launch date has yet to be announced.
SpaceX has had a busy year of launches, and many of them have included the company's own Starlink satellites. The satellites will eventually form a communications network around the Earth, but it's going to take a lot of them for the network to be as powerful as SpaceX wants it to be. This week was supposed to feature yet another Starlink launch but, as is sometimes the case, Mother Nature decided to shut things down.
The weather for the launch, which was slated to take place either September 17th or 18th, isn't actually all that bad. However, it's not just the weather at the launch site that SpaceX has to worry about, and since the seas where its drone ship would position itself to recover the Falcon 9 booster are rough, the whole thing has to be postponed.
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Mother Nature delayed SpaceX’s most recent launch attempt originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 16:51:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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