Tuesday was shaping up to be of the busiest days in the brief history of Elon Musk's SpaceX, with one spacecraft splashing down just as another one was set to blast off.

But high winds around Cape Canaveral did not cooperate, and the launch of the SpaceX Deep Space Climate Observatory — known as DSCOVR — was scrubbed for the third day running, with little more than 10 minutes left on the clock.

That also meant we'll have to wait to see if the company's Falcon rocket can successfully land on an autonomous drone ship after launch — or whether it will explode upon landing like the Dragon's booster rocket did in January.

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The company's commercial cargo ship, the Dragon, successfully disconnected from the robot arm that had it hooked up to the International Space Station at 2:15 p.m. ET. This was the fifth of 12 resupply missions that SpaceX has been running to the ISS, thanks to its $1.6 billion NASA contract.

ISS cosmonaut Anton Astrey posted a great photo of the Dragon on Twitter after disconnecting. Both Dragon and ISS were hurtling into the sunrise when that happened, which you can see in the breathtakingly beautiful scene below:

Packed to the gills with student science experiments, not to mention a few thousand pounds of ISS trash, the Dragon headed earthwards — and splashed down off the western coast of Mexico around 7:40 p.m. ET.

Dragon splashdown off the California coast pic.twitter.com/4Bvfmei8I3 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 11, 2015

Less than two hours prior, the DSCOVR satellite should have been launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch of that satellite, intended to monitor conditions such as sun spots and solar flares, had been postponed twice already.

Presuming it launches Wednesday at 6:03 p.m. ET, the next launch window, we'll soon know if the plan to bring the booster rocket back down under its own steam was successful — or whether it will once again crash on the recovery ship, like this:

When that happened in January, Musk described it as "close, but no cigar." SpaceX executives maintained that kind of equanimity about the possibility of another fiery landing Tuesday.

"I don't see this as a failure at all," one said at a NASA press conference prior to launch. "It's a development step."