Al Gore will have to wait at least one more day for his spacecraft to go to space.
The planned launching of a spacecraft that is to act as a “tsunami buoy” to warn of potentially catastrophic solar storms was aborted with less than three minutes left in the countdown on Sunday evening.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory, abbreviated as Dscovr and pronounced “discover,” was to blast off at 6:10 p.m. in Cape Canaveral, Fla., but the launch was called off because of a problem with the Air Force radar for tracking the rocket to space. The next launch opportunity is Monday at 6:07 p.m. Eastern time.
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The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, also plans to use the launching as a second opportunity to try to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a platform in the Atlantic, part of its effort to develop a reusable rocket that could greatly reduce the cost of sending payloads to space.
A version of this article appears in print on February 9, 2015, on page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Warning System for Solar Storms Is Kept on Earth for Now as Launch Is Halted. Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
