It was the second abort for SpaceX in less than a week.
internet satellites from California's foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday at 1:25 a.m. EDT .
But it wasn't to be: The launch team called things off with just five seconds left on the countdown clock. "There are thousands of ways a launch can go wrong and only one way that it can go right," SpaceX's Zach Luppen said during the webcast of the planned launch."Given that, we are overly cautious on the ground. And if the team or the vehicle sees anything that just looks even slightly off, they'll stop the countdown.
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