The satellites are meant to help improve internet access across the world. The company tweeted that it is standing down and will announce another launch date soon.
Standing down today; standard auto-abort triggered due to out of family data during engine power check. Will announce next launch date opportunity once confirmed on the Range
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 15, 2020
This would be the sixth launch of this kind from SpaceX.
The company was planning to launch 60 satellites from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39-A.
The satellites will be placed in orbit about 15 minutes after launch. SpaceX hopes to land the Falcon 9 safely on the drone ship over the Atlantic Ocean called Of Course I Still Love You.
SpaceX already has 300 Starlink satellites orbiting in space, first launching in May 2019. Ideally, SpaceX would like 12,000 satellites orbiting Earth by the mid-2020s.
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