Rocket-ship traffic jam delays SpaceX launch at busy Cape Canaveral

HAWTHORNE — There’s a lot of traffic these days at Cape Canaveral in Florida, and the congestion forced a delay Wednesday in a planned launch by Hawthorne-based SpaceX of a U.S. Space Force GPS satellite.
The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III Space Vehicle 04 had been scheduled for 6:51 p.m. California time. But citing “a conflict on the range,” SpaceX reset the launch for 6:43 p.m. Friday.
The delay was due to another scheduled mission, a United Launch A