United Launch Alliance resets Atlas V launch for Sunday morning

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Thanks to some bad rain and wind, the United Launch Alliance now has its eyes on Sunday morning to launch its Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral.

The rocket which had the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane on board originally planned to launch at 8:24 a.m., but the violations of the cumulus cloud and ground wind constraints caused them to try the second window at 10:13 a.m. With roughly 1 minute and 40 seconds left before it was scheduled to take off, the ULA declared a scrub for Saturday's launch.

The next launch attempt will be possible Sunday at 9:14 a.m EST. However, on Sunday, SpaceX also had a planned Falcon 9 rocket launch for the eighth Starlink mission from the SLC-40. The company tweeted that due to a conflict on the Range, they now have their eyes set on Monday, May 18h at 3:32 a.m. for that launch.