\u2018Liftoff not possible\u2019 for rocket carrying Project Kuiper satellites, due to clouds that could trigger lightning strikes<\/p>\n
Weather prevented a rocket carrying the first batch of Amazon<\/a> satellites designed to compete with Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> Starlink from lifting off on Wednesday, in a setback for the planned Project Kuiper network.<\/p>\n \u201cStubborn cumulus clouds and persistent winds make liftoff not possible within the available window,\u201d read a liveblog update from operator United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida had originally been slated for 7pm (2300 GMT).<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2018Liftoff not possible\u2019 for rocket carrying Project Kuiper satellites, due to clouds that could trigger lightning strikes Weather prevented a rocket carrying the first batch of Amazon satellites designed to compete with Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink from lifting off on Wednesday, in a setback for the planned Project Kuiper network. \u201cStubborn cumulus clouds and persistent winds … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}