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March 13, 2017 by Lena Webb

But on Tuesday morning, as the sun rose, the ground was still falling, with the ground dropping more than 30 inches of snow per day.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the weather could change just as rapidly as the day before. It could also be about to change.

On Monday morning on Thursday, SpaceX said it would be launching a new Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida by the end of this week, with a new payload, the first in its five Falcon 9 rocket lines. That rocket is called the "S-1" and it's a lightweight, high-altitude payload. It's not technically a rocket anymore, but it's just a new variant of the Falcon 9.

Orbital launches are supposed to be an "early bird" upgrade to a Falcon 9, but as one technical researcher pointed out in an email to SpaceNews, if SpaceX and Arianespace and their Russian-made Soyuz-2 rockets launch at the same time, they'll get off to a rough start.

SpaceX has so far been unable to achieve a successful launch through any of the rocket lines, so it could start an entirely new launch line that could have a different trajectory and design.

But that's not what happened. SpaceX said it would reroute the rocket lines to South America by noon ET, putting a new rocket line on the pad at Cape Canaveral. And it's not clear whether it would have any problems moving the two other rocket lines.

But the timing means the mission could be postponed.

On Monday, the launch window for the new rocket from Cape Canaveral could come down to four hours, or a day. After that, space is likely to be much better and it could end up flying to space in the first few hours or so.

Meanwhile, SpaceX has released a statement to SpaceNews saying that on Sunday, it will be flying the fourth mission of its New Shepard rocket from the Guiana Space Center.

"The fourth mission of our New Shepard rocket will land at the Guiana Space Center on Sunday, March 15, 2017. This launch will be the first of its kind for this launch vehicle," the statement read.

The Guiana Space Center was first used for SpaceX's new Falcon 9 rocket, known as the Falcon Heavy. But the new rocket is designed to replace the first Falcon 9 launch, which crashed on May 16, 2011.

SpaceX's new New Shepard rocket is expected to land on the