ROYAL Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas is in the firing line – literally – after she sailed too close to the launch of a SpaceX rocket over the weekend. The US Coast Guard is conducting an investigation into the incident, which saw blast-off aborted just 33 seconds before schedule when...
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ROYAL Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas is in the firing line – literally – after she sailed too close to the launch of a SpaceX rocket over the weekend.
The US Coast Guard is conducting an investigation into the incident, which saw blast-off aborted just 33 seconds before schedule when the vessel entered the designated “hazard zone” around the Elon Musk-backed space vehicle.
A SpaceX spokesperson confirmed the reason for the stopped countdown, saying “we did have a cruise liner making its way towards the no-go zone, that the coast guard was unable to clear out in time”.
The CEO of Port Canaveral, John Murray, said it was an isolated incident, while the rocket was finally successfully launched the following day after four consecutive attempts to take its payload, an observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, into orbit.
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