Spotlights displayed a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket ready to fly from Florida’s Space Coast on the night of April 9 as her launch window ticked away. The cold white vapors radiating from her main stage’s cryogenic fuel tank danced in the whipping winds that were to keep her grounded.
Originally scheduled to lift off Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 at 7 p.m., the launch time was pushed back several times due to unsatisfactory weather conditions regarding the intensity of winds and storm clouds downrange.
Unfortunately, those conditions did not improve by the end of ULA’s two-hour launch window, and the launch was officially scrubbed at 8:41 p.m....
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