They say if you don’t like the weather here in Florida, wait half an hour and it will change. SpaceX tried that this evening with the planned launch of a Falcon 9 carrying the Starlink 6-34 group of Internet connectivity satellites, but luck was not on their side: after delaying one-half hour and with roughly seventy seconds left in the countdown to liftoff, an abort and scrub was called by mission controllers, due to high-level ground winds. This is the company’s sixth scrub this week.

News also came out earlier in the evening that the Falcon Heavy launch for the US Space Force was also scrubbed for an indefinite amount of time: “We are standing down from tomorrow’s Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-52 to perform additional system checkouts,” the company posted at 10:14 PM Eastern Time on the X platform. “The payload remains healthy while teams work toward the next best launch opportunity. We’re also keeping an eye on the weather and will announce a new launch date once confirmed with the Range.”

As for tonight’s launch of Starlink 6-34, SpaceX also posted “Standing down from tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink due to high ground-level winds. Vehicle and payload are healthy. Targeting no earlier than Wednesday, December 13 for next launch opportunity.”

Weather may indeed become the holdup for launches from the Space Coast over the next few days. Conditions are forecast to be less favorable than they were this evening for Starlink. The 45th Weather Squadron of the US Space Force forecasted earlier today that there is a 35% chance of favorable conditions tommorow night, due to high liftoff winds. After that, conditions here will deteriorate even further over the next several days.

The National Weather service is expecting around 4-5 inches of precipitation over the next five days, along with high winds:

Should those forecasts be accurate, that will leave SpaceX with three planned missions in limbo until the area sees better conditions. In addition to the USSF-52 and Starlink 6-34 launches, the company is scheduled to launch Ovzon-3 Sunday afternoon. Ovzon 3 is a small communications satellite of the Swedish / US company Ovzon and liftoff from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is slated for 3:46PM Eastern Standard Time on December 17th.