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The second attempt of SpaceX was cancelled on Thursday again due to technical difficulty experienced in the launch of Flacon 9 rocket, said launch commentator.

The rocket was just two minutes short of a liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida when the launch was canceled, revealed John Insprucker, SpaceX commentator during a live launch webcast.

The countdown was stopped when the launch team was un the middle of final loading of the super-chilled liquid oxygen propellant into the rocket's first and second stages, said Insprucker. "Preliminary (information) is that we were ... looking at how much time we had left in the count to finish loading the liquid oxygen, and at that time the launch team decided that we would need to hold the countdown," he said, says Fortune

There is no news about the rescheduling of the launch yet. On Wednesday, the launch attempt was against cancelled for the same mission so as to allow some more time for the liquid oxygen to chill. The fuel's density can be improved, thus adding to its power when the temperatures are lower. On top of the rocket sits 12,613 lb Boeing-built satellite, owned by SES, network operator from Luxembourg.

The main objective is to make the satellite position itself in the geostationary orbit, 22,000 miles above Earth so that it can deliver television and broadband services in Southeast Asia.

"We will be dropping SES-9 off 100 times as high as the International Space Station," said Lauren Lyons, mission integrator for SpaceX, as reported by Phys.org

SpaceX wants to launch their satellite as high as 24,233 miles above the Earth and still have sufficient fuel for the Falcon rocket to complete its first stage and make a safe landing on a platform floating 400 miles off Florida coast.

So far, Falcon has not successfully landed on the sea and has failed thrice already. However, in December, Falcon 9 landed safely on a ground-based landing pad in Florida, a milestone for Musk's dream of a reusable rocket, WFTV.com reports