NASA Wallops Island Rocket Launch Scheduled for Tonight After It Was Postponed Again
On 5/12/21 at 11:27 AM EDT
NASA has once again postponed a rocket launch from its Wallops facility in Virginia due to weather conditions.
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility tweeted on Wednesday that the launch of its Black Brant XII sounding rocket, due to take place on Tuesday had been "scrubbed because of cloudy skies in Bermuda and Wallops."
The next opportunity to attempt a launch would be no earlier than 8:06 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, with backup windows running through May 16.
LAUNCH SCRUBBED ❗ Tonight's launch of the KiNET-X sounding rocket has been scrubbed due to cloudy skies in Bermuda and Wallops. The next launch opportunity will be no earlier than May 12, at 8:06 p.m. EDT. Backup days run through May 16.— NASA Wallops (@NASA_Wallops) May 12, 2021