After both onshore and offshore weather headaches in the past week, SpaceX is back on Monday to try and finish up its third of three contracted launches of competitor Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites.
A Falcon 9 on the KF-3 mission was no match for torrents of rain across Florida late Thursday on its first launch window, followed by more Florida weather issues into the weekend, but also problems downrange because of heavy seas kicked up by Tropical Storm Jerry.
The company is now looking to launch 24 more of Amazon’s broadband internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a launch window from 8:08-10:22 p.m.
Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a 95% chance for good conditions at the launch site, but still sees a concern for