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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, grounded Sunday by an Air Force radar glitch and again on Tuesday by high winds aloft, finally roared to life and climbed into space Wednesday, boosting a space weather sentinel onto a million-mile trajectory toward an orbit where it can provide early warning of potentially dangerous solar storms.
Putting on a spectacular sunset sky show, the rocket's nine first stage engines flashed to life on time at 6:03 p.m., majestically pushing the slender booster away from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
"Everything has gone just as planned," said NASA launch commentator Mike Curie. "The Deep Space Climate observatory is free to discover, on its way to the L1 Lagrange Point where it will send data back to help protect those of us on planet Earth."
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