New Zealand company Rocket Lab has delayed the second test flight of its Electron rocket until early next year, with its window to launch ending tomorrow.
Rocket Lab's rocket at the launch site at Mahia Peninsula Photo: Supplied / Rocket Lab
It opened the 10-day launching window last Friday but high winds, an aborted launch, and a power fault have grounded attempts so far.
One attempt to launch the 17-metre rocket had to be aborted just two seconds from take-off.
It is the second of three test flights as the company prepares to become a commercial operation.
Rocket Lab says corrective measures were put in place for the power fault yesterday but with only one day left in the launch window it's decided to delay it until the New Year.
No firm date has been chosen.
During the first test flight, in May, the rocket made it to space but did not quite make it into orbit.
The flight ended four minutes in, with the rocket at a height of 224km, when engineers briefly lost contact with it, which forced them to terminate the mission.