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After Weeks of Delay, SpaceX Falcon Launches Communications Satellite Payload
After several weeks of delay, SpaceX has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral AsiaSat's communications satellite, AsiaSat 6. This launch was originally intended to occur on August 27. However, due to a failure of an experimental SpaceX rocket during a test flight, the launch was delayed. The experimental rocket apparently malfunctioned because of a sensor error. The company stated that the same error wasn’t likely to occur in its regular Falcon 9 rocket, but wanted to "triple-check" its systems to be certain.
SpaceFlightInsider has a play-by-play on the launch process and more details on the communications satellites aboard. They note:
[This] marked the fifth flight of the Falcon 9 in 2014. Since the company began using the booster, it had only been able to carry out about two launches annually of the rocket – until now. With the United States Air Force considering the rocket for use under the lucrative Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program and NASA already utilizing it to deliver cargo (and potentially crew) to the International Space Station, the rocket has become a popular player in terms of launch services. The next mission that SpaceX should use the propulsive descent landing system on, is the launch of one of the firm’s Dragon spacecraft carrying out NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 4 (SpX-4) mission – currently scheduled to take place on Sept. 19.
"Maybe my math is off, but in my book 11 days does not make "weeks""
A week is 7 days. 11 days is about 1.57 weeks
More than one is plural.
Considering that your 1.57 "weeks" is indeed "weeks".
It therefore follows that there delay of 11 days translates out to centuries - 0.00030117 centuries
It's also 3.01170019 × 10-5 millenia. What the hell is the holdup?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.