Technical failure: SpaceX canceled Starship test flight at the last minute!

Technical failure: SpaceX canceled Starship test flight at the last minute!

Turks- und Caicosinseln, Karibik, Frankreich - The planned test flight from SpaceX for the Starship rocket program was canceled at the last minute, for a serious technical reason. Like vienna.at , the company said that it would be foregoing the world's largest rocket system, while the team is working on the problem solution. The test was to take place just half an hour before the planned withdrawal at the space station in Texas, but was stopped abruptly when the countdown was already running. SpaceX employee Katie Tice confirmed that the technicians are now looking for the “next best available flight”.

Starship, which serves as a key technology for future Mars missions, has already had a turbulent story. According to Zeit.de The test flight of the 123-meter-high rocket should have been in a number of attempts. However, there was an explosive incident in a previous test in January, which left ruins over the Gulf of Mexico and on the Turks and Caicos Islands and led to a temporary flight ban. After extensive changes at the upper rocket level, SpaceX recently received permission for the next test. Despite this approval, the FAA criticized that its own review of SpaceX's security measures was not yet complete when the test flight was scheduled for today.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, has repeatedly pointed out the difficulties that his company has due to security and environmental requirements. Especially during the bid administration, the pressure by regulatory authorities was considered a hindrance. Now, as a consultant of the former President Trump, he sees how he deals with the challenges and expectations of his space project. In the face of this latest cancellation, it remains to be seen when Starship will actually go up and whether the future missions will be successfully run after the numerous setbacks.