The weather team at Cape Canaveral predicts an 80% chance of favorable weather at the launch site Wednesday morning. The offshore conditions are forecast to improve in time for the backup launch opportunity Wednesday at 1:10 a.m. NASA and SpaceX managers were particularly focused on a part of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic states, where the Crew Dragon might splash down in the event of a rocket failure during staging a few minutes after liftoff. EDT (0621 GMT) Sunday.īut the abort zone conditions were another story, with winds and waves exceeding limits for a safe splashdown of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The weather forecast for the launch site at Kennedy was nearly perfect, with a 90% chance of acceptable conditions for liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft at 2:21 a.m. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft could splash down along the flight path northeast from the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center if the capsule needs to escape its Falcon 9 rocket in an emergency. Officials tracked weather and sea conditions in downrange abort zones throughout the week in hopes the forecast would improve enough to fall within safety criteria.
NASA and SpaceX managers in Florida decided early Saturday to delay the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station from Sunday to Wednesday, when high winds and rough seas are expected to subside along the Falcon 9 rocket’s flight path across the Atlantic Ocean. NASA astronaut Kayla Barron, commander Raja Chari, pilot Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer pose in their SpaceX flight suits at launch pad 39A during a dress rehearsal Thursday night.
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