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SpaceX Aborts SES Mission Again

Monday, February 29th, 2016

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SpaceX Aborts SES Mission Again

SpaceX lands its upgraded Falcon 9 first stage Dec. 21, 2015, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Photo: SpaceX.

The twice delayed Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) SES mission was postponed for a third time on Sunday.Originally set to launch Feb. 24 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. (Defense Daily, Feb. 24), the Falcon 9 rocket mission carrying the SES-9 payload was earlier slipped to Feb. 25 and then again to Feb. 28. The SES-9 is a communications satellite destined for Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). It has a payload of 81 high-powered LU-band transponder equivalents and is set to…

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