While most cruise ships are content to avoid the coast, one ventured nearer than was safe for an up-close look at a SpaceX launch.
The private rocket company was forced to scrub a launch in Florida on Sunday evening after a cruise liner got too close to the launch zone.
“A cruise ship departing Port Canaveral either entered the restricted off-shore safety zone or was going to reach it during the Falcon 9’s ascent,” CBS News’s William Harwood tweeted. “As a result, today’s launch has been scrubbed.”
F9/CSG-2: SCRUB! A cruise ship departing Port Canaveral either entered the restricted off-shore safety zone or was going to reach it during the Falcon 9’s ascent; as a result, today’s launch has been scrubbed; they’ll try again tomorrow; sigh
— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) January 30, 2022
SpaceX launch engineers waited as the Coast Guard resolved the problem with the cruise liner, but they missed the launch window when the situation wasn’t resolved in time.
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The delay is the fourth for the Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Italian Space Agency Earth observation satellite after inclement weather put off the launch several times last week, according to Space.com. The cruise liner has not been identified by SpaceX or the Coast Guard, but only two ships, Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas and MSC Cruises’s Meraviglia, departed from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, according to Florida Today.
The launch has been rescheduled to Monday at 6:11 p.m. If the rocket cannot launch by Tuesday, SpaceX will delay it until after a Feb. 2 launch for the Department of Defense at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Florida Today reported.
The #Falcon9 patiently waits to launch after multiple delays. The next attempt to launch CSG-2 is tomorrow at 6:11 PM EST. #SpaceX
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— Richard Angle (@RDAnglePhoto) January 31, 2022
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SpaceX and the Coast Guard did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s requests for comment.
