Timeline for What are the most-delayed missions that eventually launched successfully?
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| Dec 1, 2021 at 17:48 | vote | accept | Anton Hengst | ||
| Oct 3, 2020 at 23:06 | comment | added | Organic Marble | 16 months, still wow! | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 21:58 | history | edited | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2020 at 21:52 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | @OrganicMarble agreed. Revised accordingly. | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 21:52 | history | edited | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Revised answer due to misunderstanding the original question.
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| Oct 3, 2020 at 20:30 | comment | added | Organic Marble | I took "longest complete rocket awaiting launch" to mean it had to be stacked. If delays in planned launch dates are on the table - the shuttle flights after the failures would be multi-years. | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 20:21 | comment | added | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | The multi-year trainwreck that Icon's launch turned into presumably played a large part in Nasa and SpaceX contracting depts figuring out a way to sell a Falcon 9 for 50 million dollars (later reduced to a bit over 40m ) without jeopardizing SpaceX's ability to sell normal launches at full cost for the IXPE mission which was originally designed for a Pegasus launch to low equatorial orbit. | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 19:43 | comment | added | Organic Marble | Had the vehicle been assembled for the 2017 launch? if so, wow. Didn't sound like it from this, though. "The satellite, also built by Orbital ATK, was placed in its shipping container at the contractor’s Gilbert, Arizona, assembly facility last month to await clearance to head to Vandenberg, he said." That was in Nov 2017. spaceflightnow.com/2017/11/10/… | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 19:38 | history | answered | Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |