Monday, April 17, 2023

SpaceX Scrubs Starship Launch, Will Try Again

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has scrubbed this morning's first ever launch of its Starship rocket, after the company ran into what it described as a "pressurization issue" with its Super Heavy booster. SpaceX scrubbed the countdown with less than 10 minutes left. SpaceX has not yet said when it will reattempt the launch. Starship is the company's extremely large space launch vehicle, intended to take very large payloads into space, and eventually--if the company's plans pan out--to take humans to Mars.