Orbital Sciences' Wallops Rocket Launch Postponed Until July 12 (WATCH)

Jul 11, 2014 08:04 AM EDT | Matt Mercuro

The rocket launch from Wallops Flight Facility, which was scheduled to take place today (July 11), has been postponed until July 12.

Orbital Sciences decided to reschedule the launch of its Cygnus space craft due to bad weather in the area, according to the Daily Press.

NASA spokesmen Keith Koehler confirmed to reporters that the mission to the International Space Station will now occur at around 1:14 p.m. on Saturday. 

The space craft will carry approximately 33-hundred pounds of supplies for the ISS. Science experiments, spare parts, experiment hardware, and crew provisions will be among the payload.

Most of the East Coast will be able to see the launch of the Antares rocket.

"This is not any less of a nail-biter than any of the missions," company spokesman Barron Beneski said, according to the Daily Press. "There's an old phrase: You're only as good as the mission you're working on. Just because we've done it before doesn't make this any less difficult. And it's an unforgiving business."

ISS astronauts will use the station's robotic arm to grab Cygnus on July 15, according to the Daily Press.

The Cygnus craft will stay at the station until around Aug. 15, and after that it will be launched with trash from the ISS.

Cygnus will then burn up during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

The Orb-2 mission is the second of eight cargo resupply missions to the ISS under Orbital's Commercial Resupply Services current contract with NASA.

For the Orbital-1 mission in January, Planet Labs of San Francisco launched an initial fleet of 28 CubeSats, separately known as Dove satellites, from the space station, according to the release.

Click here to view the launch on July 12 through NASA TV.

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