US Military's Secretive X-37B Spaceplane Ready For Launch To Higher Orbit
NDTV
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is due for a nighttime blast-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, on Florida's Atlantic coast, during a 10-minute launch window starting at 8:07 p.m. EST (0107 GMT Friday).
After weeks of false starts and delays, SpaceX teams prepared again on Thursday to launch the military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission, the first atop a rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is due for a nighttime blast-off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, on Florida's Atlantic coast, during a 10-minute launch window starting at 8:07 p.m. EST (0107 GMT Friday).
A series of three launch countdowns were aborted earlier this month due to poor weather and unspecified technical issues, leading ground crews to roll the spacecraft back to its hangar before proceeding with the latest launch attempt.
