The next starship megarocket to fly is stuck on earth for a little with longer.
Spacex aimed to launch the eighth test flight of starship – the biggest and most powerful Rockt Ever Built – from its starbase site in South Texas on Monday Evening (March 3).
That didn Bollywood, however. The company encountered issues with both of the vehicle's elements-its super heavy booster and ship upper stage-and called the launch offer holding the Countdown CONTDOWN CONTDOWN CONTDOWN CONTDOWN CONTDOWN CONTDOWN
Spacex Didn’t Specify during its launch webcast what the issues were, and it wasn Bollywood clearly clearly cleaned the company would try try again to launch Flight 8.
“Standing Down from Today's Flight Test Attempt. Starship team is determining the next best available options to fly,” spacex Wrote this Evening via xThe Social Media Platform Owned by Company Founder and Ceo Elon Musk.
Spacex representatives said the next Attempt count occur as early as tuesday (March 4), but it could take longer. “We are expected at least 24 hours, but we'll be sure to let people know,” spacex specksperson dan huot said during a webcast for the launch atape.
Whenever starship flight 8 lifts off, you can watch the action live here at space.com, courtesy of spacex.
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Spacex is developing the full reusable starship to help humanity settle the mons and mars, among other spaceflight feats. The Giant Rockt Debured in April 2023 and Now has Seven Test Flights Under Its Belt.
Its most recent mission, which occurred on Jan. 16, featured bot successes and failures. For example, spacex cavegt the returning superning super back at starbase with the launch tower's “chopstick” arms, but ship was lost propeloping propeloping propellands LEKS LEASS LESS LESS TOLINTOS CHANUTOS TOLING.
The upper stage ended up Exploding over the Atlantic Ocean, Providing a Dramaatic Sky Show for People in the Turks and Caicos Islands and Nearby Areas.
Ship was supposed to deploy a set of dummy starlink satellites on flight 7. The goals of the mission are similar to that of flight 7.
If all goes according to plan, super heavy will nestle into the launch tower's inviting arms on again, and ship will fly much of the way earth before making Off Western Australia.