
The Air Force approved Space Exploration Technology Corp.’s (SpaceX) request to move its previously scheduled, early morning Tuesday AsiaSat 6 launch to Wednesday following a Aug. 22 launch anomaly on the company’s Falcon 9 R (F9R) reusable rocket test vehicle. In the anomaly, SpaceX terminated a three-engine version of its F9R in-flight when the vehicle’s flight termination system automatically ended the mission after detecting a flight anomaly, according to a company statement. Company spokesman John Taylor declined to answer additional…