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Scott Powers

SpaceX rocket launch scrubbed at Cape

Feb. 09--KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- SpaceX may try again Monday evening to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a space-weather satellite after the first launch was scrubbed just before blast-off Sunday night.

Liftoff was called off with two minutes and 26 seconds remaining in the countdown because the Air Force reported problems with the radar systems needed to track the rocket's ascent.

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SpaceX's next rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Air Station has been scheduled for Feb. 8 at 6:10 p.m., officials said Tuesday.

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SpaceX plans to try again Sunday night to land its used rocket on an unmanned barge in the Atlantic Ocean after launching it into space, an experiment seen as a big step toward making space launches dramatically less expensive.

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