A weather satellite operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration watched Hillary evolve at rocket speed from a mild tropical depression into a forceful Category 4 hurricane. Packing sustained winds of 145 mph (233 kph), Hillary is moving northward to Baja California where it is expected to make landfall on Sunday (Aug. 20) Nevertheless, the bad weather that Hilary is pushing ahead of itself forced SpaceX to cancel a planned Starlink launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday morning.
"Due to Hurricane Hilary impacting recovery operations in the Pacific, we are standing down from tonight's Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink," SpaceX said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Next launch opportunity is no earlier than Monday, August 21."
Hilary's arrival will mark the first hurricane or tropical storm landfall in Southern California since 1939,
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