SpaceX scraps Starship rocket launch in Texas for second time in two days | SpaceX
SpaceX was forced to remove the launch of its giant Texas Starship rocket on Monday, this time due to the weather, marking the last of a setback sequence for the company Elon Musk-Run.
The 232 feet super heavy booster (71 meters) high and its upper half of starships 171 feet high – together larger than the New York Liberty Statue – had to take off from Starbase Rockets from SpaceX at 7:30 p.m. But the launch was canceled at the last minute.
“Standing the attempted test in flight today due to the weather,” said the company on X, the social network which also belongs to Musk.
SpaceX has experienced a series of delays as it seeks to reach several stages for long wanted essential to the reusable design of the rocket system. A liquid oxygen leak at the Launchpad starship has nesting an attempt to launch Sunday, wrote the Musk billionaire on X during the night.
The development of the new generation of SpaceX, a key to the powerful company launching the company and Musk’s objective to send humans to Mars, has faced repeated hiccups this year. NASA hopes to use the rocket in 2027 for its first landing on the moon to the crew from the Apollo program.
The Internet activity by Satellite Starlink of SpaceX, a major source of income from the company, is also linked to the success of starship. Musk aims to use Starship to launch larger lots of Starlink satellites, which have so far been deployed by the Falcon 9 rocket of SpaceX workhorse, in space.
Musk, for his part, remained bruise. “In about 6 or 7 years, there will be days when Starship will be launched more than 24 times in 24 hours,” said the entrepreneur on Sunday, responding to a user on X.
This year, two tests of testing starship at the start of the flight, another failure in space on its ninth flight, and a massive stand explosion in June which sent flying debris in the nearby Mexican territory tested an approach to the development of tests-Top-to-Failure of SpaceX to their technical limits. This ethics is clearly different from SpaceX rivals such as Jeff Bezos’ blue origin, whose new Glenn rocket made its operational debut in January after years of development and field tests. The new Vulcan rocket by United Launch Alliance, co -owner by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, had a similar education before its beginnings in 2024.
With the SpaceX approach, test failures at the start of the flight of starship prevent the company from collecting vital technical data necessary to advance the design of the rocket.
However, SpaceX, which Musk plans to record around $ 15.5 billion in revenues this year, continued to quickly produce new vessels for trial flights at Starbase, an industrial and fast -growing industrial rocket complex. The region was manufactured a municipality in May by local voters, including many SpaceX workers.
The setbacks of Starship underline the technical complexities of the last iteration. The ship is filled with capacities much more than models of predecessors such as the increase in thrust, a potentially more resilient thermal shield and stronger crucial steps to nail its atmospheric reintegration – key features of its quickly reusable design than musk has long pushed.
SpaceX has a long list of tasks for the development of starship before the rocket begins the routine missions envisaged by Musk. This includes the demonstration of secure yields of space, deployments of orbit payroll and complex supplies in the space of crucial space for its lunar mission assignments of NASA.
Once in space, Starship will try to deploy simulated starlink satellites and revive an engine along its suborbital path around the world. The atmospheric start to the Indian Ocean will test its outdoor steering shutters and a range of experimental thermal shield tiles while the ship flashes through an intense friction and heat.
Reuters contributed the reports
