NASA has postponed Fridays scheduled launch of the Phoenix Mars Lander aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, by 24 hours.
Washington, Aug 1 : NASA has postponed Friday's scheduled launch of the Phoenix Mars Lander aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, by 24 hours.
The two available launch times are now of Saturday, Aug. 4 at 5:26:34 a.m. and 6:02:59 a.m. EDT.
NASA said bad weather forecast around the Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Florida on Tuesday afternoon prevented the completion of the second stage of the fuelling process.
Although fuelling is expected to be finished by Wednesday morning, there is insufficient contingency time in the schedule to move forward with the launch on Friday, NASA said.
The pre-launch news conference is now scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2 p.m. at the NASA press site at Kennedy Space Center.
All other planned events for the news media will occur 24 hours after their originally scheduled times. NASA Television and Web coverage will begin at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday.
ANI