![]() ![]() DSCOVR replaces a 17-year-old satellite monitoring for potentially dangerous solar storms, which can disrupt GPS signals, block radio communications and impact power grids on Earth. The rocket carries the Deep Space Climate Observatory, nicknamed DSCOVR, a $340 million mission backed by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Air Force, which paid for the launch. The company has been developing technology to reuse its rockets, potentially slashing launch costs. Waves three stories tall were crashing over the decks of the landing platform, SpaceX said. “Unfortunately we will not be able to attempt to recover the first stage of the Falcon 9,” SpaceX said in a statement. Weather was pristine for launch on Wednesday, but high seas prompted SpaceX to cancel a test to land the rocket’s discarded first stage on a platform in the ocean. The launch was delayed on Sunday by a problem with a radar tracking system and on Tuesday by high winds. EST (2303 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Illuminated by the setting sun, the 22-story Falcon 9 rocket soared off its seaside launch pad at 6:03 p.m. satellite into deep space, where it will keep tabs on solar storms and image Earth from nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million km) away. ![]() (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket blasted off on Wednesday to put a U.S. ![]()
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