Elon Musk Spacex on Sunday canceled the launch of Starship’s tenth mission from Texas for a problem in its launch site, delaying an attempt to achieve several long -sought development milestones due to the past tests that end in early failures.
The Super Heavy reinforcement of 70.7 meters high and its upper half of the 52 m high spacecraft were stacked in a launch assembly in the Spacex Starbase rocket facilities, since it was filled with propellants before a take -off time of 7:35 pm et (4:35 am PKT).
But approximately 30 minutes from takeoff, Spacex said in X that he was delaying the time to solve problems with earth systems.
Musk had been ready to provide an update on the progress of Starship’s development before launching the rocket on Sunday, but a live transmission of position marker indicated that it had been canceled.
Similar postponements have been resolved in the past in a matter of days. Spacex is now directed as soon as Monday, August 25 for the next attempted Starship’s launching, according to its website.
Development of the next generation rocket of Spacex, the center of the powerful launch of the Future and Musk’s Mars Ambions, has faced repeated problems this year.
Two failures in the ship’s ship at the beginning of the flights, another fault in space in its ninth flight and a massive explosion of the testing post in June that sent debris flying to the nearby Mexican territory has tested the test development approach to Spacex failures.
Even so, the company has continued to produce new spacecraft for test flights in its extensive Starbase production facilities. NASA expects to use the rocket as soon as 2027 for its first lunated moon landing from the Apollo program.
The setbacks underline the technical complexities of the last iteration of Starship, full of many more capacities, such as the increase in thrust, a potentially more resistant heat shield and the strongest crucial fins to nail its atmospheric re -entry, key features for the rapid reusability of Starship that the musk has pressed for a long time.
The stacked system outside Texas was expected around sunset on Sunday before its upper scenario of the spacecraft would separate from the super heavy dozens of miles at altitude. Super Heavy, which has returned for a landing on its launch platform in giant mechanical arms in past tests, would have attacked the Gulf of Mexico for soft water landing to test a backup engine configuration.
Starship had to briefly turn on his own engines to establish even more in space, where he would have tried to release his first batch of simulated simulacros of Starlink and rekindle an engine while in a suborbital road around the planet.
After that phase, the ship goes to an atmospheric re -entry on the Indian ocean, a crucial flight phase that proves a variety of prototypical tiles of heat shield and motor fins designed to support a barbecue flood of burning heat that has largely destroyed the exterior of the rocket during past flights.
“Starship’s re -entry profile is designed to intentionally emphasize the structural boundaries of the harter rear fins, while at the point of dynamic maximum entry pressure,” Spacex said on his website.
