Tropical Depression Nicole delays NASA, SpaceX launch - Fox Business

Tropical Depression Nicole enactment a damper connected plans for NASA and SpaceX to motorboat its 26th commercialized resupply services ngo to the International Space Station, forcing it to propulsion the day backmost to Nov. 21.

SpaceX, which is led by billionaire and caller Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, primitively aimed to motorboat its Dragon cargo spacecraft connected apical of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center successful Florida connected Nov. 18, but the accomplishment of present Tropical Depression Nicole, has the abstraction agencies looking astatine a day nary earlier than Nov. 21.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts disconnected from pad 39A astatine the Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, April 27, 2022. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristofore (AP Photo/John Raoux / AP Newsroom)

Nicole made landfall conscionable southbound of Vero Beach, Florida with sustained winds of 75 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane connected the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

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It has been blamed for the deaths of astatine slightest 2 people, according to Fox Weather, who were electrocuted erstwhile they encountered a downed powerfulness enactment successful Orlando.

The tempest brought almighty waves on the eastbound seashore of Florida which caused important erosion and led to respective buildings collapsing.

People brave rainfall and dense winds to sojourn the waterfront on the Jensen Beach Causeway, arsenic conditions deteriorate with the attack of Hurricane Nicole. ((AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) / AP Newsroom)

Coastal flooding has besides been an contented with TropicalDepression Nicole. In fact, 1 NOAA tide gauge successful Port Canaveral, Florida recorded 3.6 surge supra the mean precocious tide connected Thursday morning.

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On Thursday evening, the tropical cyclone’s halfway was 40 miles southeast of Tallahassee, Florida and had sustained winds of 40 mph.

As the tempest tracks to the north, NASA and SpaceX can statesman preparations for their resupply ngo aboriginal this month.

The cargo volition see a Moon Microscope, which NASA said is simply a portable handheld microscope that allows astronauts to cod a humor illustration and get images that tin beryllium sent to surgeons connected the crushed to diagnose illnesses.

The Dragon volition besides nonstop caller subject experiments, supplies and instrumentality for the crew, including a survey to turn dwarf tomatoes successful space.

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