If weather permits, the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX, founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, will make the first launch of 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday.
SMN Weekly reported that SpaceX has a 60 percent chance of favorable weather for its resupply mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX has a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to bring cargo to the ISS until the U.S. space agency can create its own space taxi system.
The company has carried out four previous resupply missions and will bring more than two and a half tons of science experiments, supplies and food for the ISS.
According to USA Today, the unmanned Dragon capsule will ride on top of a Falcon 9 rocket as stated under the $1.6 billion contract with NASA.
The mission was set to for late December, but after a test-firing of the Falcon 9 booster's nine Merlin 1D engines did not go as planned, the mission was postponed.
Furthermore, SpaceX lost opportunities to launch in December 2014 because of heating caused by the sun's angle relative to the space station.
SMN Weekly said if weather prohibits the launch Tuesday, SpaceX will have another chance Friday.
SpaceX will kick start a series of about two dozen launches set for Cape Canaveral over the next year. In 2014, the site only had 16 launches.
Cape Canaveral is near NASA's Kennedy Space Center and is officially under the auspices of the 45th Space Wing of the U.S. Air Force.
