Falcon 9 Transporter-2
A Falcon 9 stands on the launch pad ahead of its launch on the Transporter-2 rideshare mission. An airspace violation scrubbed a June 29 launch attempt.

A SpaceX launch scrubbed in the final seconds of its countdown when an aircraft violated restricted airspace June 29 has aligned both the launch industry and the airline industry in their criticism of the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...