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Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
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Joe Mario Pedersen and Richard Tribou

SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch; Elon Musk blames aircraft, government regulations

SpaceX delayed a planned Tuesday afternoon launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Tansporter-2 mission carrying 88 small satellites.

The launch window opened at 2:56 p.m, but called the attempt off after a no-go from the Eastern Range, the area over the Atlantic over which the Falcon 9 rocket would ascend.

Elon Musk posted to Twitter that it was called because of an aircraft that entered the “keep out zone,” while also critiquing the size of it, calling it “unreasonably gigantic.”

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