--- title: SpaceX Scrubs Mission SES-9 For Third Time in a Week description: The private space company is aiming for the first successful rocket landing on an ocean platform canonical: https://time.com/4240686/spacex-mission-ses-9-elon-musk/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-29T04:40:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:07:30.984Z article:section: Science og:title: SpaceX Scrubs Mission SES-9 for Third Time in a Week og:description: It is aiming for the first rocket landing on an ocean platform. og:url: https://time.com/4240686/spacex-mission-ses-9-elon-musk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7b627078c1a8972/69887f848e06015b64464d1d/24589505473_74c0268b7e_o.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 24589505473_74c0268b7e_o og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: SpaceX Scrubs Mission SES-9 for Third Time in a Week twitter:description: It is aiming for the first rocket landing on an ocean platform. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7b627078c1a8972/69887f848e06015b64464d1d/24589505473_74c0268b7e_o.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # SpaceX Scrubs Mission SES-9 for Third Time in a Week by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 29, 2016 4:40 AM UTC  SES-9, Feb. 22, 2016 SES-9, Feb. 22, 2016SpaceX by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Feb 29, 2016 4:40 AM UTC With only seconds to go to liftoff, SpaceX aborted yet another launch attempt Sunday — the third time it’s called things off since Wednesday. Elon Musk’s private space company tweeted that the launch vehicle and the spacecraft were healthy. Monday had been set for a backup launch date at Cape Canaveral, Florida, but SpaceX said an update was pending a data review. Mission SES-9 is trying to achieve the first successful rocket landing on an ocean platform. Its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, designed to send of satellites into orbit, uses a new fuel mixture that offers more power… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/third-time-week-spacex-scrubs-mission-ses-9-n527676?cid=par-time%5F20160229) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4240686/spacex-mission-ses-9-elon-musk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4240686/spacex-mission-ses-9-elon-musk/"},"headline":"SpaceX Scrubs Mission SES-9 for Third Time in a Week","datePublished":"2016-02-29T04:40:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:07:30.984Z","description":"The private space company is aiming for the first successful rocket landing on an ocean platform","url":"https://time.com/4240686/spacex-mission-ses-9-elon-musk/","keywords":["space travel","Tech","Elon Musk","SpaceX"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7b627078c1a8972/69887f848e06015b64464d1d/24589505473_74c0268b7e_o.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc7b627078c1a8972/69887f848e06015b64464d1d/24589505473_74c0268b7e_o.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"24589505473_74c0268b7e_o","caption":"SES-9, Feb. 22, 2016","creditText":"SpaceX","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space-travel/","name":"space travel"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4240686/spacex-mission-ses-9-elon-musk/","name":"SpaceX Scrubs Mission SES-9 for Third Time in a Week"}}]}] ```