- SpaceX delayed a rocket launch half a minute before takeoff after a ship entered the "hazard zone".
- Elon Musk's company said it will try to launch the Falcon 9 rocket one more time on Monday.
- It was the fourth consecutive day that SpaceX had to delay this mission.
Elon Musk's SpaceX called off its latest rocket mission 33 seconds before takeoff after a cruise liner came too near to the launch site.
"Hold, hold, hold," an operator announced on SpaceX's live webcast on Sunday, half a minute before the rocket was about to launch into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
"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," SpaceX production manager Jessie Anderson said later in the 15-minute long webcast.
Aside from the ship coming close to the site's hazard area, SpaceX was on track for a smooth launch, Anderson said in the webcast.
Hazard areas are set up around launch sites for safety reasons, and access to them is controlled ahead of rocket launches.
Anderson said the company "will try one more time" to launch the Falcon 9 rocket on Monday.
Sunday was the fourth consecutive day SpaceX had tried to launch the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission, which involves carrying an observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency into orbit.
SpaceX has pushed the mission launch back three times since Thursday due to bad weather conditions at the launch site.
Musk's aerospace company has already launched three rockets this year between January 6 and 19.
If the latest mission goes ahead Monday, it would keep SpaceX on track to achieving its reported goal of launching 52 rockets this year, per CNBC, or four rockets on average every month.