SpaceX Falcon 9 COSMO-SkyMed Launch Update: Italian Radar Earth-Observation Satellite Retargets Vandenberg After Scrub
SpaceX has scrubbed its planned year-ending Falcon 9 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California after a ground systems issue at the launch pad, delaying the launch of Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation Flight Model 3 (CSG-FM3) Earth-observation satellite. Spaceflight Now reported the scrub late Saturday (U.S. time) and said SpaceX was targeting a Sunday attempt, though an updated official launch time had not yet been confirmed by the company at the time of reporting. Spaceflight Now+1 When it flies, the mission is set to carry a dual-use (civil and defense) synthetic-aperture radar satellite for the Italian Space Agency (ASI)