Launch of the Falcon 9 rocket was postponed for a day – BBC Russian

The company SpaceX postponed a day launching Falcon-rocket with the satellite SES-9 connection due to adverse weather conditions.

The launch had been scheduled for February 25th. He had to make at 2:46 Moscow time from the launch site at Cape Canaveral.

Now launch rescheduled for the same time on 26 February. In its official “Twitter” SpaceX announced that the rocket and the satellite communications fully operational.

During this first stage of the rocket launch plan to put on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. Earlier, SpaceX has already been once to make a successful landing of the first stage, several attempts have ended in failure.

Initially, the satellite had to start as early as last year, but then launch postponed due to a previous rocket blast the Falcon 9, which June in orbit a space truck Dragon.

The company space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) belongs to California entrepreneur Elon Musk. Its rocket Falcon 9 was designed as reusable.