NASA aborts takeoff of plane-launched rocket, reschedules

This morning, NASA attempted to launch eight small satellites to space on board a Pegasus XL rocket, manufactured by private spaceflight company Orbital ATK. But, a host of problems pushed the agency to abort the launch just before the launch window closed at 9:19AM ET. Now NASA will try again tomorrow, as long as the issues that affected today's launch are resolved.
Called the CYGNSS mission, the satellites are meant to study various aspects of tropical storms and hurricanes from orbit, in orde