Go for Tanking at T- 3 Hours

Managers overseeing launch preparations of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and NOAA’s DSCOVR have given a “go” for propellant loading. The operation is scheduled to take place at T-3 hours, about 3:03 p.m. EST. Liquid oxygen and RP-1, a rocket-grade kerosene, will be fed into separate tanks aboard each of the Falcon’s two stages.

Weather remains 90 percent “go” and there are no technical issues that would prevent the launch of DSCOVR at 6:03:32 p.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida.

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