On Thursday, bad weather delayed the launch of an Orbital ATK Inc. rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). Now, the resupply mission has been rescheduled to take off on Friday.

The mission to the space station is the first of the enhanced Cygnus, which will take about 7,700 pounds, or 3,500 kilograms, of cargo for astronauts living aboard the habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit.

Mike Pinkston, program manager of the Antares rocket, said in a statement that he was excited yet nervous about the company’s space station missions. He also said that the company is confident about the rocket. NASA has now scheduled the launch for Friday at 4:33 pm.

The company’s previous two missions, one in October last year and other in this June, were failures. Now this time, there will be 30-minutes launch window, as per the US space agency. It will be the company's third mission to take cargo for astronauts aboard ISS.

NASA said people can watch the launch live on its television site. The United Launch Alliance's Atlas V has never been used before on a space station mission. Pinkston said, “The upcoming launch to resupply the ISS will fulfill part of Orbital's contract with NASA. As it now stands, the station has enough food on board to last until April if no more cargo ships show up”.

Next year, Orbital ATK has three CRS missions which will fulfill ISS cargo needs.