It looks like their barge isn't up for the weather either: http://www.spacex.com/press/2015/02/11/dscovr-launch-update
I've finished two Iain Banks "Culture" novels and got to cameo appearances of the good spaceships Just Read the Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You. It's 80s/90s/00s SF I wasn't familiar with. Elon will try another tail-down landing of a Falcon 9 on the Just Read the Instructions this Monday April 13. Let's hope he nails it this time.
Some pre-launch warmup video (with cowbell). 4:33 PM EDT launch. Window is just a few seconds in order to match orbit with the ISS, with a 60% chance of launch today (weather). Spacex wogs give a 75% chance of the booster landing successfully.
Elon's only giving himself a 50/50 chance of landing it. This from a few minutes ago. His twitter page is fun:
Another bang on the barge. Elon tweeted Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.
I've written a lot on why a rocket should take off and land on its side instead of on its end. Nobody else flies tail-sitters because they're a nightmare.
It's funny how landing the launcher is a secondary objective when - let's be honest - it's what everybody is really interested in. Everybody's launched rockets. That's old hat. The fist pumps at ground control will definitely come out when they do a successful touchdown.
That's all kinds of win, although my son points out that it looks a lot like the escape pod from SW:IV, and suggests the astronaut should be dressed like Princes Lea.
We can further nerd out that her "communicator" is NASA's golden astronaut insignia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut_badge#NASA_astronaut_pins