Arabsat 6a launch delayed
April 11, 2019
By Chris Forrester
SpaceX was forced to again delay the launch of Arabsat 6a because of bad weather at Cape Canaveral.
The new launch date is now a hoped-for April 11th in the late afternoon local time. The launch window opens at 6.30pm EST. The Florida launch site suffered dangerously high winds.
A Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the Arabsat-6A satellite, owned by Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, and is SpaceX’s fourth launch this year, and the first of two Falcon Heavy launches in 2019.
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