Next Launch Opportunity Is Thursday

Gusty winds up to 40 miles per hour forced SpaceX to scrub the launch of one of its last expendable Falcon 9 boosters early Tuesday morning.

Fortune magazine online reports that the company was scheduled to launch an EchoStar XXIII communications satellite during a window that opened at 0134 EDT Tuesday. But at 0136, SpaceX Tweeted "Standing down due to high winds; working toward next available launch opportunity."

That next launch window opens at 0135 EDT Thursday, according to SpaceX.

The launch will be one of the last, if not the last, by SpaceX to use an expendable Falcon 9 booster. Later this month, the company plans to launch its first previously-flown booster from historic Launch Complex 39 at Cape Canaveral, FL.

But there will be no attempted recovery of the booster that will carry the EchoStar XXIII satellite into orbit. spaceX said on its website that it "will not attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage after launch due to mission requirements."

The EchoStar XXIII mission will be SpaceX’s second launch from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX will not attempt to land Falcon 9’s first stage after launch due to mission requirements.

FMI: www.spacex.com