A rocket consisting of a 70.7 meters high of the drive (booster) super heavy and 52-meter upper Starship part was to start from the Starbase base, belonging to SpaceX, in Texas at 19.35 local time (23.35 GMT time).
However, 30 minutes before the start, SpaceX informed on platform X that “she cancels today's tenth Starship flight to allow the defect to be removed in ground systems.”
Spacex did not provide the date of the next attempt. The Associated Press agency notes that in the past similar problems have been solved within a few days. During the SUPER heavy booster test, he was to try to land in the designated region of the Mexican Gulf.
Another missile failure
It was another missile failure, the largest that has been built so far, with which NASA agency binds high hopes. He wants to use it, starting from 2027, to manned flights to the moon as part of the Artemis mission, the first from the Apollo program from the 1970s.
In May this year Musk announced that this year Starship, not just his booster, would be able to land safely on Earth. However, in June the rocket exploded at the starting stand during the next attempt. The explosion was so strong that fragments of the rocket fell on the territory of neighboring Mexico.
