Today’s launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9/Dragon to the International Space Station for NASA 17th Commercial Resupply Service was scrubbed at T-15 minutes hold before the scheduled launch time at 3:11 a.m. EDT (3:11 p.m. GMT+8).
SpaceX scrubbed this morning’s launch attempt due to a problem maintaining power on the drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The drone ship Of Course I Still Love You was position about 17 miles away from the coast in preparation for Falcon 9 first stage to land.
However, the launch team hopes to try again to launch Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon resupply ship on Saturday at 2:48 p.m. EDT (2:48 p.m. GMT+8). SpaceX plans to lower the Falcon 9 rocket horizontal later today to address a helium leak on a connector on the rocket’s second stage. Saturday’s instantaneous launch opportunity occurs at 2:48:58 a.m. EDT (2:48:58 p.m. GMT+8).
An instantaneous launch is a launch window which is directly sync to the International Space Station when it passes the launch point.