Launch of MUOS-1 Scrubbed Due to High Winds

 

The launch of a ULA Atlas V 551 rocket with its U.S. Navy payload was scrubbed today due to high upper-level winds. Photo Credit: Jeffrey J. Soulliere

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – The inaugural launch of the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite – will have to wait another day. High upper-level winds in the skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41) caused the scheduled launch time of 5:46 p.m. EST, to slip – again and again. 

With the final attempt at 6:29 p.m. (just one minute before the launch window of the day closed) it actually looked like everything was going “green.” Then with just over a minute left in the count – the launch was scrubbed. The launch window will open at 5:42 p.m. EST tomorrow (Friday) and extend through 6:26 p.m. Tomorrow’s forecast only provides a 40 percent chance of providing favorable conditions for launch. 

MUOS-1 is set to launch atop one of the most powerful versions of United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Atlas rocket – the Atlas V 551. Both the launch vehicle and MUOS-1 satellite have been secured and the launch team will attempt to send the communications satellite on its way Friday, Feb. 17.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) will try again on Friday, Feb. 17 - starting at 5:42 p.m. EST and extending through 6: 26 p.m. Photo Credit: Jeffrey J. Soulliere
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