After facing a windy and rainy prediction with only 20% chance of favorable weather at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX workers decided to postpone their rocket launch attempt from Friday night to Saturday night. This delay is around 24 hours.

As of right now, SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A on Saturday at 7:29 p.m. Eastern Time. Should there be further delays, backup options are offered until 11:29 p.m.

For the Starlink 6-42 mission, the Falcon 9 will launch a payload of twenty-three broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.

There’s a significant meteorological improvement on Saturday with a 75% likelihood of “go for launch” conditions, according to the Space Force’s 45th conditions Squadron.

SpaceX Dragon launches under bright skies on Thursday to dock with the International Space Station at Cape Canaveral.

“A low pressure area is moving across the Big Bend area of Florida, bringing gusty winds, showers, and isolated thunderstorms throughout Florida. On Saturday, the low pressure will be tracking up the Eastern Seaboard, leaving the Spaceport with northwesterly winds and isolated, wrap-around showers,” the squadron’s forecast said.

“The primary launch weather concerns will be Liftoff Winds and the Cumulus Cloud Rule associated with the isolated showers,” the forecast said.

Unlike the NASA-SpaceX launch on Thursday, which launched a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, no local sonic booms are anticipated. Instead, eight and a half minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s first-stage booster will aim to land aboard a drone ship at sea after soaring upwards on a southeasterly course.