Elon Musk’s SpaceX called the latest test flight of its starship rocket just before its schedule launch on Monday, cited an unwarded problem with Bhamthy Spacecraft.
SpaceX posted on X, “Standing down with today’s flight testing attempts, also owned by Musk.” The Starship Team is determining the next best available opportunity to fly. “
Today’s flight is standing below with testing attempts. Starship Team is determining the next best available opportunity to fly
– SpaceX (@Spacex) March 3, 2025
There was no crew with a crew at the world’s largest and most powerful rocket at 6:45 pm (2345GMT) at the Starbase feature of SpaceX in Texas.
A re -determined launch has been announced so far, although SpaceX employee Dan Huot said the incident was expected to be “about 24 hours” during the live feed.
The flight will be the eighth orbital mission of the starship overall and since the explosion in a dramatic mid-hwa on the Caribbean during its final test.
403 feet (123 meters) long – about 100 feet long than Statue of Liberty – Starship is eventually designed to be fully re -purpose and plays an important role in the vision of Kasturi and SpaceX to make Mars colonized.
Meanwhile, NASA is waiting for a modified version of rockets for its Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts on the moon.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded Starships after its previous flight on 16 January, which ended with the upper stage, disintegrating in a fierce waterfall over the Ottoman and Caicos Islands, indicating cleaning efforts for fallen debris.
On Friday, the FAA stated that the starship could come back to fly before SpaceX’s “MissAp probe” review of its review.
Joe during Biden’s presidential post, Musk often accused the FAA of excessive investigation on SpaceX’s safety and environmental concerns.
Now, as one of the closest advisors of President Donald Trump, the world’s richest person faces allegations of unfair impact on the regulatory agencies overseeing his companies.
For the upcoming flight, SpaceX says that it has introduced several upgrade in the upper-step spacecraft, which has increased its reliability and performance.
It is expected to last over an hour, it includes another attempt to capture the booster stage using the launch tower’s “chopstic” weapons – a tricolor has successfully executed twice, including the final flight.
Additionally, the company will deploy the Starlink simulator designed to mimic the next generation starlink satellites, which will burn at the atmospheric re -entry.
After all, SpaceX aims to fix the upper stage as well, but for now, it is targeting an ocean splashes from the western coast of Australia, as in the previous flights.
Joe in a recent appearance on the podcast of Rogen, Musk said that the most difficult problem before the complete re -purpose of the rocket is heat shield.
“We have found to solve a fully re -purpose orbital heat shield. A problem that has never been solved before,” Musk said.
He said that he believes the starship “is very close to receive the booster’s full and rapidly re -objective,” the entire stack is saying the goal for re -purposes – including both rocket and booster – next year.
Before realizing the ambitious goals of Space exploration of Starship, Spacex must prove that the rocket is flightworth and safe for crew missions.
The company also needs to use other starships as complex in-arbit fuel filling-fuel tankers-to enable the space trip to a distance.
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