SpaceX postponed its tenth Starship test flight roughly 30 minutes before liftoff after detecting a ground-systems issue at its Texas launch facility, and the company said it would attempt the launch again on Monday. Recent Starship test efforts have suffered multiple failures: upper-stage test flights in January, March and May ended in mid-flight explosions, and a June static fire caused an explosion on the launchpad. Starship is intended to be fully reusable and to support Mars colonisation and NASA lunar missions, but SpaceX has yet to demonstrate reliable upper-stage payload delivery, return recovery, or in-orbit refuelling of super-cooled propellant.
About 30 minutes before the planned liftoff at its Texas launch facility on Sunday, SpaceX said that it was abandoning its 10th test flight to allow time to troubleshoot an issue with ground systems. list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4list 2 of 4list 3 of 4list 4 of 4end of list SpaceX said it would attempt the launch again on Monday. The launch failure is the latest in a series of botched missions by SpaceX.
Test flights of the rocket's upper stage in January, March and May ended in mid-flight explosions, while a static fire test in June resulted in the vehicle exploding on the launchpad. Starship is designed to eventually be fully reusable, but SpaceX has so far been unable to get the vehicle's upper stage to deliver a payload to space or return to the launch site. The 403-feet (123-metre) spacecraft is key to Musk's goal of colonising Mars, while NASA plans to use a customised version of the vehicle for its planned crewed missions to the Moon.
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