SpaceX officially sets new launch time for Bulgaria satelliteSpaceX Falcon 9 launch to ISS is 100th launch from Kennedy Space Center pad 39A
Orlando Sentinel
By Marco Santana•June 19, 2017, 9:20 AM
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched with the Dragon capsule to resupply the International Space Station on June 3, 2017. The liftoff was the 100th launch at Kennedy Space Center from Launch Complex 39A. This is SpaceX's 11th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station.A Bulgarian telecommunications company will give it another go on Friday in its effort to launch the country’s first satellite.
SpaceX officials said late Sunday that a mission that has been delayed multiple times has set its sights on 2:10 p.m. Friday.
The backup time for that date will be the next day at the same time.
If it meets this launch time, it will set up what SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday called a “weekend doubleheader,” as it will happen a day after a planned launch from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.
Both payloads will take off on a Falcon 9 rocket.
At about 3:29 p.m. on Sunday, SpaceX posted on Twitter that its launch of a BulgariaSat-1 would be delayed.
The company blamed a valve on the rocket’s fairing for the latest delay.
The launch date for this mission has been delayed multiple times. On Thursday, it appeared on track for Monday’s liftoff after SpaceX conducted its routine static-fire tests.
But Sunday’s Tweet changed that.
BulgariaSat-1 represents the country’s first geostationary telecommunications satellite.
SpaceX has three planned launches from Florida in July.
Officials with Bulgaria Sat, the largest provider of pay-TV services in Bulgaria, blamed weather forecasts for the initial June 15 delay.
The Bulgaria Sat launch will mark the second time SpaceX relaunches a rocket booster, following the March 30 relaunch of a booster from Florida.
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