Launch companies, range teams reassessing Cape Canaveral weather rules
Source: Spaceflight Now
Date Published: 03/03/2021
Launch companies and U.S. Space Force range officials at Cape Canaveral are reassessing long-standing weather rules, looking at beefing up rocket defenses against lightning, and considering strategies to prepare for two different launch windows on a given day to guard against weather delays, a capability that SpaceX may demonstrate with a Falcon 9 launch early Thursday.
