SpaceX reschedules rideshare rocket launch over safety issue

 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images

Space X scrubbed its scheduled launch of the Transporter 2 Tuesday afternoon just seconds before the rocket was set to take off.

Elon Musk confirmed the cancelation shortly after 12 p.m. Pacific in a tweet blaming an airplane that had entered a restricted “keep out zone.” Musk said the regulations in place currently were “broken.”

The Transporter 2 launch was rescheduled for Wednesday afternoon. It is leaving from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The mission is a rideshare to outerspace. About 90 satellites sit atop the veteran rocket. The dozens of devices belong to the U.S. military and various satellite companies across the world. The Transporter-1 carried nearly 150 satellites to space in January.

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