SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, May 23 for Falcon 9's launch of the ARABSAT BADR-8 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 127-minute launch window opens at 11:25 p.m. ET (03:25 UTC on May 24). If needed, there is a backup opportunity available on Wednesday, May 24 with the same window.
The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, OneWeb Launch 17, and seven Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about fifteen minutes prior to liftoff.
What if elon wants to go to space cause he's planning on bringing a big ass asteroid on earth to wipe out humanity 🤯
@TheMarcusGomez Says:
Nice. Crew launch from 40!
@rpishyao629 Says:
It feels like SpaceX has become accustomed to using launch failures to attract attention and advertise.
@Rajinikanth33-w6l Says:
*Mission successfully failed* sorry Arab 😂😅
@pabloalvarez8034 Says:
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@pabloalvarez8034 Says:
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@Rmm1722 Says:
Great
@retiefmalan8772 Says:
What is the mission/purpose for this launch?
@GreenJimll Says:
I like how te countdown timer graphics recycled back to 15.00 before the end of this video. 🙂
@brothatwasepic Says:
Indigo children unite ❤ 🌟
@cjay2 Says:
Why do they help our enemies go to space? Just wondering. Koran 9.29: Find all the non-believers and kill them.
@planetsec9 Says:
Shame about the scrub but man is that a cool angle, the lightning towers frame the brightly lit Falcon 9 well, the smoke adds so much atmosphere, very aesthetic scene
@samamiss5608 Says:
What's the meaning? Is this a cancel launch?
@franciscocerutimahn Says:
14 times....14 TIMES !!! - A rocket has gone to space 14 times and it was done by a commercial company, not by a state or international entity. THAT IS PROGRESS. So happy to be alive at this time.
@Fly_With_Andersen Says:
Last night I was trying to stay awake to watch the rocket launch and this is what I have to deal with lol its ok hopefully tonight
@stephensfarms7165 Says:
Hold, Hold, Hold. 😮
@Антилошарик Says:
Лох ТВ
@nishrhythm Says:
Bruh i thought why a timer isn't moving... Its a launch scrub 😅
@Nextburjalarab Says:
Wish they would put scrubbed in the title so 60k people don’t waste half an hour watching and nothing happens
@MrCommentGod Says:
Was that a space reference?
@auro1986 Says:
it is a very big 'gas station' as you say for spaceships from here and everywhere because oil and petroleum products are useful for all beings
@petersampson5202 Says:
DEAR MR. MUSK, EVERYONE AT SPACEX AND EVERYONE AT ARABSAT,
HAPPY NEW YEAR. 🙏
GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIENDS. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. 🙏
I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH. 🙏
GOD BLESS YOU MR. MUSK. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST AND HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.
I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH MR. MUSK. 🙏
YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING WITH A BEAUTIFUL HEART.
( INSPIRATION4 WAS AND IS BEYOND BEAUTIFUL AND BEYOND EXTRAORDINARY) THANK YOU SO VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. I AM INDESCRIBABLY GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. 🙏
EVERYTHING HAS BEEN A MIRACLE AND A MIRACLE AND A MIRACLE. 🙏
I FEEL LIKE CRYING WITH COMPLETE GRATITUDE AND HAPPINESS. WOW! WOW! WOW!🙏
GOD BLESS YOU SO VERY MUCH MR. MUSK. 🙏
SINCERELY PETER
@peatier7626 Says:
try to contain your excitement 8:42
@peatier7626 Says:
someday there are will be so many multiple launches in a day there going to need to start adding A, B , C, D at the end of each mission name :)
@jaymac7203 Says:
At least put "postponed" or something in the title 😭 lol
@ДмитрийВасильев-к9щ Says:
вещь
@Xovo.x0 Says:
at this point just start UBERING to space now getting ridiculous
@FurkanDincerov Says:
Hello
@FurkanDincerov Says:
Hi
@Mahesvara935 Says:
nice try, let's pray for all Gods and Goddesses that the weather is better tomorrow there.
@aud3rs_music Says:
probably because it was dark
@davidstinger1134 Says:
I wonder what's the actual, real danger of launching a rocket during rain.
Wasn't the Saturn V of the Apollo 12 mission hit by a bolt of lightning while it was climbing up?
@markwison4286 Says:
I just read on a forum that block 5 boosters are made to fly 100 times? Is that accurate?
@uddinislah2724 Says:
👌👍
@WorkstationOIW Says:
I admire the way SpaceX is capable of making a decission to scrub the launch, provide the reason for the scrub and then prepare for the next launch attempt. This gives a real feeling of "predictable reuseability". . . . the whole workflow is iterative and repeatable in a finite time span!
@Boxersteavee Says:
Didn't look like a hold, it pretty much immediately depressed.
@Toddpeekence Says:
I love how it's so normal to waste minutes of a video for absolutely no reason at all! What a time to be alive
@Boxersteavee Says:
"you would rather be on the ground, wishing to be in the air than be in the air, wishing to be on the ground"
@cualtiochi Says:
"you can buy anything with... MONEY" 🤔🤕 lets send some oil to the Moon and Mars
@Spazass666 Says:
Wonder how many tax payer dollars went to subsidize this?
@dustup224 Says:
These last second holds and scrubs are becoming a trend where SpaceX has fallen into the same unreliability category as NASA. NASA uses ancient parts at lowest bidder while SpaceX takes their reusability regimen to the point that even SpaceX's computers balk nervously as the announcer uses "weather" as an excuse to protect SpaceX's reliability record.
"Elon's Pick-A-Part" used rocket salvage yard has become a punch line.
@QT810-n2b Says:
What if Cpt Kirk had said : Upps cloudy weather outside…? I can’t rescue the world , sry not my weather ….🤣
@SixSilverStones Says:
Darn weather. We’ll launch another time
@kamakaziozzie3038 Says:
thunderstorms not common around Vandenberg
@jayday5089 Says:
Hahaha they wanna go to space but don't even no what the weather gonna be like 😂😂😂 this is a joke 😅😅
@Hungary_0987 Says:
What happened?
@dustinnance3163 Says:
What happens to all that gas in the tanks when there is a scrub?
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