SpaceX on Sunday called off a Falcon 9 rocket launch with 11 seconds remaining after the plane allegedly entered restricted airspace near the launch pad.
A California exhibition scheduled to send Starlink satellites into orbit collapsed at the last moment when an aircraft entered the rocket's launch space. According to a broadcast on SpaceX's X account..
At 12 seconds into the countdown, someone can be heard yelling, “Wait, wait!”
The same voice is heard a moment later saying, “Oh, there may be an aircraft in the airspace, so I'll hold.”
The launch, originally scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed, according to Business Insider.
It was not immediately clear which aircraft, if any, was responsible for the aborted launch.
The paper said several planes flew near the restricted area near the scheduled launch time.
The perpetrator on social media suspected Delta Air Lines Flight 480 from Los Angeles to Honolulu early Sunday, but the airline said it was following instructions from air traffic control and had “no problems.”
On the other hand, the audio from air traffic control is YouTube Channel VAS Aviation It was revealed that an air traffic controller had told the Delta flight that it would “put on a great show for a rocket launch.”
Another flight from San Diego to Honolulu, Southwest Airlines Flight SWA 1311, was near the launch zone at the time, but neither the airline nor the FAA received any reports of the incident, the report said.
The rocket successfully launched on Tuesday morning. According to the SpaceX X account.
“400th Falcon landing!” the account said, confirming the deployment of 27 Starlink satellites.
