SpaceX postpones rocket launch with less than 2 minutes to lift off

Everything looked good for a SpaceX rocket launch on Thursday evening, but with just 1 minute and 40 seconds to go, the company stopped the countdown and announced the launch was going to have to wait for another day.

This would have been SpaceX's second launch mission for the year, which is to transport the SES-9 communications satellite into orbit over Asia.

SpaceX engineers said during a live webcast that the rocket was in good health, but that there is no known rescheduled time for the launch as of right now.

Thursday's launch attempt was actually a back-up for the original launch date, which was scheduled for Wednesday. Wednesday's launch was postponed due to inclement weather.

It is unclear when SpaceX will announce its next launch attempt, and so far SpaceX has not provided any further information about why the launch was scrubbed.

Stay tuned for more as we learn what happened.

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