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On Thursday, May 10th, 2018, SpaceX attempted a launch of the first Falcon 9 block V rocket carrying Bangabandhu-1 however the countdown was stopped at t-58 seconds and the launch was scrubbed for 24 hours. Do we know what caused the launch abort sequence to be initiated?

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    $\begingroup$ So far only this tweet: "Standing down today due to a standard ground system auto abort at T-1 min. Rocket and payload are in good health—teams are working towards tomorrow’s backup launch opportunity at 4:14 p.m. EDT, or 20:14 UTC." - which is ofc not enough for an answer. $\endgroup$
    – Polygnome
    May 11, 2018 at 10:54
  • $\begingroup$ I doubt that any committee, customer or boss would accept to his "Why did it fail again?" question an "it is opinion-based" answer from the engineers. Please vote for leave open. $\endgroup$
    – peterh
    May 11, 2018 at 14:05

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The Flight Computer checked everything, and noticed an abort signal in a piece of ground equipment, due to a bad state from a prior test. They have fixed the problem to not happen again.

This is from the livestream of the second launch attempt.

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    $\begingroup$ Just heard this in the Livestream too! $\endgroup$
    – Dragongeek
    May 11, 2018 at 20:04

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