A SpaceX rocket launch deliberate for Tuesday afternoon at Vandenberg Area Drive Base was compelled to take a rain examine after a widespread energy outage scrubbed the liftoff, in line with a press release from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The ability outage within the Santa Barbara area disrupted telecommunications on the Los Angeles Air Route Visitors Management Middle, making a “no-go situation for launch,” NASA mentioned in put up.
The management middle manages air site visitors over 177,000 sq. miles of airspace together with California’s coast from L.A. to San Luis Obispo, the Ventura space and into the Pacific for about 200 miles, in line with the FAA.
The choice got here simply 45 seconds earlier than the rocket was set to launch, with a SpaceX official calling, “Maintain, maintain, maintain. … We’ve aborted launch at this time because of airspace issues.”
“The FAA took this motion to make sure the security of the touring public,” the administration mentioned.
The FAA additionally issued a floor cease on the Santa Barbara Airport on Tuesday because of the outage, the airport mentioned in a press release. Flights had been diverted and delayed. Energy on the airport hadn’t been restored as of about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, in line with a spokesperson, who mentioned that the bottom cease can be lifted as soon as energy was restored to the realm.
As well as, the outage disrupted 911 service all through Santa Barbara County, in line with KTLA.
As for the SpaceX launch, the rocket and its payloads had been nonetheless in fine condition, NASA mentioned.
Aboard the rocket had been two twin satellites, part of NASA’s TRACERS mission — Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites.
The 2 satellites will examine Earth’s magnetosphere by figuring out how magnetic explosions ship photo voltaic wind particles into Earth’s environment, and the way these particles have an effect on house know-how and astronauts.
The launch was rescheduled to Wednesday at 11:13 a.m., NASA mentioned. It can happen at Area Launch Complicated 4 East at Vandenberg.
Final month, a SpaceX launch from the identical location lighted up the night time sky throughout Southern California.
